The issue of Palestine's representation in the Baltic states was first raised more than three years ago, and those criticizing the proposal are carrying out a separate foreign policy, Speaker of the Lithuanian Seimas Viktoras Pranckietis says.
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Emanuelis Zingeris (born 16 July 1957 in Kaunas, Lithuania) is a Lithuanian philologist, museum director, politician, signatory of the 1990 Act of the Re-Establishment of the State of Lithuania.
Viktoras Pranckietis, the speaker of the Seimas, invited Palestinians to set up a representative office for the Baltic countries in Vilnius and called for closer security cooperation between Lithuania and Israel.
Viktoras Pranckietis, the speaker of the Lithuanian parliament, will pay an official visit to Israel in mid-October.
Lithuanian politicians have expressed their respect and condolences over the passing of US Senator John McCain, calling him a "true friend of Lithuania" and a "fighter for truth and democracy".
An entry ban imposed on Moscow on Lithuanian MP Emanuelis Zingeris will complicate his work on a report for the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) on the killing of Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius said.
Emanuelis Zingeris, a Lithuanian lawmaker appointed by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) as a special rapporteur for the Boris Nemtsov murder case, has been banned from entering Russia.
Vytautas Magnus University professor Liudas Mažylis who discovered the long-sought Lithuanian Independence Act last year is inviting researchers of countries celebrating their centennial anniversaries this year to pool their efforts for analysis of the independence declarations.
A delegation of Lithuanian parliamentarians headed by Parliamentary Speaker Viktoras Pranckietis is leaving for Warsaw on Wednesday to celebrate 100 years of Lithuania's restored statehood.
The Lithuanian parliament adopted on Thursday the so-called Magnitsky legislation banning entry to foreigners involved in large-scale corruption, money laundering or human rights violations.
Lithuania's conservative MP Emanuelis Zingeris on Tues day lost the race for presidency of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe to a parliamentarian from Cyprus.
Parliamentarians from European countries have been divided by the rivalry of Lithuania's conservative MP Emanuelis Zingeris against a Cypriot representative for presidency of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.
Emanuelis Zingeris, a member of the Lithuanian parliamentary delegation at the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), has been nominated as candidate for PACE president, the MP's office said.
The Lithuanian Migration Department currently cannot review its decision not to grant asylum to Yevgeni Titov, a Russian journalist, its director said on Monday.
Lithuania's parliament is advised to show solidarity with the neighboring Poland and state support to the resumed investigation of the 2010 airliner crash that claimed lives of then president Lech Kaczynski and another 95 individuals.
At Lithuanian parliamentarians' initiative, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe has condemned persecution of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) persons by Chechen authorities and called for an investigation into the matter.
