American-Lithuanian Business Council

We meet with Ambassador Žygimantas Pavilionis on a quiet Sunday morning in the Lithuanian Embassy in Washington, D.C., for the last interview before he leaves the USA and returns to Lithuania.

The American-Lithuanian Business Council, which was set up last year, works to promote investment between the two countries - sometimes by pointing out investment opportunities in, say, Lithuania's striving for energy independence and sometimes by playing up the Lithuanian ancestry of many a success...