Ministry of Foreign Affairs

On 4 May in Chicago, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Linas Linkevičius participated in a solemn ceremony of unveiling of the monument to Adolfas Ramanauskas-Vanagas, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Union of Lithuanian Freedom Fighters, head of state of the country that was...

Lithuania is ready to contribute to the restoration of the Notre-Dame de Paris cathedral which was ravaged by a fire earlier this week and will consider ways on how to do that, its leaders say.

Lithuanian Ambassador to Russia Remigijus Motuzas will be summoned for consultation as he's becoming vulnerable, Lithuania's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Thursday.

Lithuanian citizens living abroad will be able to vote in the upcoming elections and referenda in May at around 60 places, the country's Ministry of Foreign Affairs says.

The Lithuanian government has heard the voice of the communities living abroad and has reversed its decision to scrap the Commission for Coordination of Affairs of Lithuanians Living Abroad.

Exactly 75 years ago the USA experienced a blow which would change the course of history. Making use of all its capacities the US learned from history and entered the war against a totalitarian regime by… making an alliance with another totalitarian regime. Later followed victory and… Yalta.

More details are available about the attack against Lithuanian migrants in Northern Ireland – the local police have told Lithuanian diplomats that unidentified individuals fired at least three shots at the house in Lurgan in early hours of Monday.

Moscow is looking for contractors to finish building Moscow House in Vilnius. The project, which started in 2008, but has stalled since then, has not been enthusiastically met by the administration of the Lithuanian capital city.

Lithuania will this week attend the Beijing International Book Fair in China, its first ever participation in the event, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has said.

The Lithuanian Foreign Ministry said on Friday that an aircraft from Belarus has violated Lithuanian airspace in the district of Lazdijai, in the southern part of the country.

A new five-rouble coin issued by the central bank of Russia has irritated Lithuania by including its capital Vilnius among the European cities liberated from the Nazis by the Red Army.

Lithuania's government on Thursday handed a note to the Belarusian Embassy over the latest incident at the Astravyets Nuclear Power Plant under construction in Belarus close to the Lithuanian border. Vilnius has also asked Brussels for involvement of the European Union (EU) in the matter. To read th...

In August 2016, it will be 25 years ago that the 12 Member States of the then European Economic Community decided to (re)establish diplomatic relations with the Baltic states – Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania – ‘without delay’.

President Dalia Grybauskaitė has this week appointed Andrius Pulokas as Lithuania's ambassador to Belarus. To read this article, try a €5.99 monthly subscription by clicking here.

Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius met with the United Kingdom's new Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson in Brussels on Monday. To read this article, try a €5.99 monthly subscription by clicking here.

Over 300 tourists from Lithuania left for Turkey on Saturday despite reports of a coup attempt in the country. To read this article, try a €5.99 monthly subscription by clicking here.

Lithuania's Foreign Ministry says it has no information about Lithuanian nationals affected in the terrorist attack in the French seaside resort of Nice where a truck smashed into a crowd in early hours of Friday. aHR0cCUzQSUyRiUyRmVuLmRlbGZpLmx0JTJGc3Vic2NyaWJlJTJGJmNhbmNlbHVybD1odHRwJTNBJTJGJTJGd3...

Lithuania has opened a new honorary consulate in Strasbourg, its seventh in France, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Friday. To read this article, try a €5.99 monthly subscription by clicking here.

Gintė Damusytė, a Lithuanian diplomat, has been proposed as the country's new ambassador to Denmark and Iceland. To read this article, try a €5.99 monthly subscription by clicking here.