Ministry of Foreign Affairs

The US Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) has decided to continue financing radio broadcasts transmitted from Lithuania to Russia and other eastern neighbors, the Lithuanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Thursday.

Lithuania ambassador to Japan Egidijus Meilūnas handed over credentials to South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN) Secretary General Le Luong Minh on March 28, saying Lithuania wanted to become a gateway to Europe for ASEAN countries.

A female university student from Lithuania suffered minor injuries during Sunday's bus crash in Spain, the Foreign Ministry confirmed to BNS.

A Russian court passed a guilty verdict for Ukrainian armed force pilot Nadiya Savchenko in a case Lithuania regards as unlawful.

In a series about those remarkable individuals who promote Lithuania's image abroad and build the country’s brand around the world, Paul Berman, Lithuania’s Honorary Consul in South Africa, talks about his work for Lithuania.

The Lithuanian Ambassador to Turkey has expressed his dismay at the explosion that ripped through the heart of Ankara on Sunday evening killing 37 people and injuring at least 125.

With a small domestic market, Lithuanian entrepreneurs are more and more often looking to foreign markets for opportunities to develop and expand their businesses. While many have been looking to the US or Western Europe, others have also begun glancing eastwards at markets like India and China.

In a city as big as Berlin traffic violations are to be expected. Berliners are particularly annoyed, however, when traffic violations go unpunished, that is, when they are committed by diplomatic staff of foreign embassies in Berlin. Lithuanian diplomats are among the top-ten violators of traffic r...

Lithuania has been seeking to expand the number of nations it maintains diplomatic relations with by starting relationships with several distant African, Asian and Oceanic countries. However, not all countries have answered the invitations to open diplomatic relationships sent by our country, report...

Attempts by Russian law enforcement institutions to ban activities of the Mejlis, or council, of Crimean Tatars is politically-motivated persecution, says Lithuanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Lithuania has opened two new honorary consulates in India and Finland this week, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Wednesday.

Lithuanian citizens will no longer need visas to travel to Indonesia after the Lithuanian Foreign Affairs Ministry were verbally informed by the Indonesian diplomats that visas would no longer be needed by Lithuanian citizens. Formal written confirmation is still pending.

Lithuania and Saudi Arabia intend to sign an agreement on cooperation across a range of areas in late February.

Lithuania's Ministry of Foreign Affairs is sceptical about the possibility of securing Russia's assistance in the January 13 coup case through diplomatic channels.

Lithuania's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Thursday it had allocated EUR 20,000 in humanitarian aid to refugees in Turkey.

Lithuania sent over 200,000 packages of medication to Ukraine on Friday in response to a request by the Ukrainian Ministry of Health.

The traditional Snow Meeting, an informal gathering of Lithuanian and foreign experts of security policy, is to be held on 14-15 January near Trakai. This year, the meeting will focus on preparing for the NATO summit in Warsaw this July.

No Lithuanian tourists were hurt during an attack on an Egyptian hotel in Hurghada last Friday, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has said.

To celebrate the 25th anniversary of the events of January 13th, 1991, a commemorative international marathon called "On the road of life and death" was held on Saturday in Lithuania and in capital cities all over the world.

Ludo Segers talks to the Dutch ambassador about taking over the presidency of the European council, on why David Cameron’s speech on getting a new deal for Britain with the EU was not anti-European, on how the Netherlands security interests are intrinsically intertwined with those of Lithuania and t...