Ministry of Foreign Affairs

On 5 July, more than 80 professionals of Latvian descent employed at more than 80 international organisations in 25 countries are gathering in Riga Castle for the Second Forum of Latvian Professionals Working for International Organisations organised by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to hold a disc...

Following an assessment of the security situation and consultations with the neighbouring countries and regional partners, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Latvia resumes a limited acceptance of visa applications from the citizens of Russia at Latvia’s diplomatic and consular missions abroad as fr...

On 7 June, the Council of Paris decided to call a square on the Place du Général Catroux in Paris’s 17th arrondissement, “Jardin de la Lituanie” (The Garden of Lithuania). It will be the first location named after Lithuania in the French capital, said the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania.

Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Gabrielius Landsbergis says the situation with Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant (NPP), currently occupied by Russia, poses danger not only to Ukraine but also for European Union member states.

Today, on 29 August, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Gabrielius Landsbergis met with heads of 63 Lithuanian diplomatic missions, consular posts and representations to international organisations, said the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

The Russian Embassy to Lithuania will keep its current name even after diplomatic representation between the countries is downgraded, Lithuania's Foreign Ministry told BNS.

The Lithuanian parliament could declare a state of emergency if people failed to follow the lockdown restrictions imposed by the government to get the spread of COVID-19 under control, Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis said.

Lithuanian's Foreign and National Defense Ministries and the State Border Guard Service have on Thursday warned about fake news being spread on their behalf regarding alleged detention of a Polish diplomat and invitation to perform mandatory military service.

Lithuania's Cabinet has on Wednesday backed the appointment of career diplomat Dainius Junevicius as the country's ambassador to the Republic of South Africa.

The Nordic and Baltic countries at the Human Rights Council on Wednesday slammed the persecution of persons cooperating with the United Nations, Lithuania's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said.

Lithuania's Ministry of Foreign Affairs is proposing sanctions for over 100 Belarusian officials responsible for vote-rigging and violence against peaceful protesters.

The positions of neighboring countries, including Lithuania, should be taken into account during the upcoming remote European Council meeting on Belarus on Wednesday, ex-Lithuanian Ambassador to the EU Jovita Neliupsiene says.

Lithuania's government is set to decide on Wednesday on whether to require that mobile network operators provide data on Lithuanian citizens abroad and, if necessary, help to contact them.

A group of Lithuanian MPs and MEPs have on Wednesday called for imposing EU sanctions on representatives of the Belarusian government, responsible for the ongoing repressions against the opposition and media in the run-up to the upcoming the presidential election.

On 3 July, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania handed over a verbal note to the Embassy of the Russian Federation in Vilnius in response to information that had appeared in the public domain regarding serious environmental violations on the D-6 offshore platform on the continental shelf of ...

On June 18 a representative of the Embassy of the Russian Federation was summoned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Lithuania to express profound concern about the recent legislative initiative of State Duma deputy A. Zhuravlev to revoke USSR Supreme Council Resolution of 24 Dece...

Lithuania plans to rebury the remains of political prisoners buried at the Rudnyk Cemetery in Kazakhstan's region of Karaganda.

Two flights from Minsk to Vilnius will take place under exceptional conditions over the upcoming weekend, Rasa Jakilaitiene, spokeswoman for Lithuania's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, told BNS.

Lithuanians who are currently in Italy are advised to leave the country, Lithuanian Ambassador to Italy Ricardas Slepavicius says.

Lithuania's Ministry of Foreign Affairs has asked people to refrain from trips to the Tenerife city of Adeje due to the threat of the new coronavirus.