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President Dalia Grybauskaitė, who is in Israel on an official visit, met with Israeli President Reuven Rivlin. The meeting - the first between the Lithuanian president and the president of Israel, who was elected last year - focused on the most relevant issues relating to regional security and bilat...
President Dalia Grybauskaitė is making an official visit to Israel on 19-21 October. She will be accompanied by the ministers of foreign affairs and economy as well as by Chair of the Jewish Community of Lithuania, Faina Kukliansky, the presidential press service said.
As Lithuania is drafting plans how to integrate refugees from the Middle East that the country has agreed to accept, with some expressing doubts about opportunities for them to find jobs in the relatively closed and ethnically homogeneous country, there is one business in Vilnius that exclusively em...
What are our obligations to those threatened by war and violence? What and how much can we cope with? When will we reach our uppermost limits? Each of these three questions is quite legitimate. But if the debate is restricted to the media soundbites “we can do it” and “the boat is full”, then the re...
Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Linas Linkevičius took part in the European Union's (EU) Foreign Affairs Council meeting in Brussels on 12 October, which focused on the situation in Syria and migration, Lithuania's MFA said.
The West will not renounce its commitments to Ukraine in exchange for Russia's help in fighting the Islamic State, an adviser to Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė, who's attending UN events in New York, said on Tuesday.
The Syrian War has turned a new page of Machiavellian dark farce with the visit of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Moscow.
The dangerous actions by Russia and Vladimir Putin pose the greatest challenge to security and democracy since WWII. This applies not only to the countries within Eurasia, but to our post-war vision of a Europe whole, free and at peace. While not necessarily a return to the Cold War, the current sit...
It is a wrenching image. And it is an image that now speaks as the symbol for the refugee crisis shaming all of Europe. The tiny corpse of Aylan Kurdi, the three-year-old Kurdish boy from the besieged Syrian city of Kobane, washed up on a Turkish shore like so much refuse. He had escaped ISIL, but h...
As thousands of refugees fleeing wars in the Middle East and Africa arrive in Europe, Lithuania, too, is going to accept more asylum seekers than previously planned. Some employers in the country say they will welcome new potential employees.
Globalisation that has showed up at Lithuania's doorstep over these last few days and weeks has caught it utterly unprepared. It is a good thing: a country which still shies away from putting "airport" in English on city buses will have nowhere to hide this time.
Tuniso turizmo ministrė Salma Lumi pranešė, kad nuo šių metų pradžios iki rugpjūčio pabaigos šalyje apsilankiusių turistų skaičius pasiekė vos tris milijonus, t. y., palyginti su tuo pačiu laikotarpiu pernai, turistų sumažėjo vienu milijonu, skelbia „Middle East Monitor“.
The first group of refugees from Africa and the Middle East should be resettled to Lithuania in January 2016, the government's officials say.
Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania, Linas Linkevičius, on Monday is taking part in the European Union's Foreign Affairs Council in Brussels.
“I would compare Putin to the Roman leaders in the time of Roman Empire’s agony. While Caesar’s Rome was the Rome of ascendancy, Putin’s Rome is the one of decay. The regime in Russia shows all signs of agony,” says Kremlinologist Lilia Shevtsova.
US President Barack Obama was fully on the offensive on Wednesday to let the world know that the deal with Iran was the best deal preventing that country from obtaining nuclear weapons.
The Lithuania Tribune / EN.DELFI TV spoke to Mr Thomas Countryman, Assistant Secretary, from the U.S. Department of State, Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation. What should be done to solve the continues migrants’ flood from the Northern Africa and Middle East to Europe
Lithuania's Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius is leaving for Brussels on Monday to attend a meeting of the European Union's (EU) Foreign Affairs Council dedicated to security and defense policy issues and threats in the EU neighborhood.
At the United Nations Security Council open debate on the Middle East on 21 April, Permanent Representative of Lithuania to the UN, Ambassador Raimonda Murmokaitė, said that the situation in the region had rarely been more dramatic, Lithuania's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said.
Oman is interested in imports of food products from Lithuania and exports of its commodities to the Baltic and Nordic states via Lithuania's Klaipėda port, Lithuanian Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius said during a visit in the country.
