Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Lithuania is ready to bring its citizens from China where a dangerous coronavirus is spreading, Interior Minister Rita Tamasuniene said on Wednesday.

The genocide of the Jewish people is a scar on Lithuania and the whole humanity's face, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Linkevicius said during an event held at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Tuesday to mark the International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

Просим разрешить провести бесплатный концерт на Ратушной площади в Вильнюсе. С такой просьбой столкнулся мэр столицы Литвы Ремигиюс Шимашюс и опубликовал ее на своей странице в фейсбуке. Мэр рассказал и о причине отрицательного ответа – Кремль хотел пропихнуть пропагандистский проект.

Lithuanian visa centers have been opened in the United States, Lithuania's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Friday.

The Lithuanian Ambassador to Turkey was summoned to the country's Ministry of Foreign Affairs for a conversation on the conflict in the Ottoman Empire during World War I following Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda's statement on Armenian genocide.

The Lithuanian, Estonian, Ukrainian and Swedish foreign ministers issued a joint statement in Tallinn on Tuesday, condemning Russia's actions in Ukraine and also voicing support to Kiev's European integration aspirations.

Hackers have sent out a fake press release claiming to be from the Lithuanian Foreign Ministry and alleging that President Gitanas Nauseda has asked the United States to build a military base in Lithuania and relocate nuclear weapons to the country.

The spokeswoman for Russia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Thursday said she had no information on a possible exchange of spies with Lithuania and Norway.

On 24 September, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Linas Linkevičius met with the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade of the Marshall Islands John M. Silk and signed a Joint Communiqué on the Establishment of Diplomatic on the margins of the UN General Assembly in New York, announced th...

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania does not recognize the holding of the illegal "regional and local elections" in the annexed Autonomous Republic of Crimea and Sevastopol on 8 September or the results.

The Chinese Embassy in Lithuania said on Monday it disagreed with the Lithuanian government's accusations over the incident last month when a group of supporters of the Chinese government were involved in a conflict with Lithuanian activists who were voicing support to Hong Kong.

Lithuania's Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Monday summoned the Chinese ambassador and handed in a diplomatic note over an incident during a rally in central Vilnius in August, held in support of Hong Kong.

Lithuanian companies have not violated the European Unions' anti-Russian sanctions, the country's Prosecutor General's Office said after dropping a two-year pre-trial investigation.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania expresses its regret regarding the resolution of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE). In the early morning of 25 June in Strasbourg, PACE decided to amend its Rules of Procedure, weakening its sanctions mechanism, and opening the wa...

Lithuania's Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Monday nominated seven new candidates for ambassadorial positions, and they also include two advisers of outgoing President Dalia Grybauskaite.

Lithuania is looking for a land lot to build its embassy in the Chinese capital, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs told BNS Lithuania.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania does not recognize the so-called “parliamentary elections” that took place on 9 June in Georgia's Russian-occupied Tskhinvali region/South Ossetia.

Lithuania's ambassador to Russia, Remigijus Motuzas, is returning to Moscow next week, two months after he was recalled for consultations, the Lithuanian Foreign Minister said on Wednesday.

On 7 May, a representative of the Russian Embassy was summoned to Lithuania's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, where a protest was expressed over the officially announced false statement of the Russian Embassy in the U.S. about the Lithuanian partisan commander Adolfas Ramanauskas-Vanagas after a monume...

On 4 May, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Linas Linkevičius conferred the highest amateur art award in Lithuania – “Aukso paukštė” (“The Golden Bird”) – on the Lithuanian dance group from Chicago “Grandis” ("The Link"), states the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.