Foreign Affairs

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania has summoned the chargé d’affaires ad interim of Belarus and handed a diplomatic note expressing strong protest over the death of a Lithuanian citizen who was detained in Belarus last December and has died since in custody, possibly because medical aid wa...

On 14 February, a representative of the Embassy of the Russian Federation in Lithuania was summoned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania and handed in a diplomatic note expressing a strong protest over the decisions of the Russian Federation to include politicians, civil servants and othe...

Minister of Foreign Affairs Gabrielius Landsbergis argues that the State Security Department (VSD) has been given a disproportionate assignment to screen every Belarusian citizen who enters Lithuania.

On Monday, 18 December, Lithuanian and German defence ministers signed the action plan on the planned deployment of a German brigade in Lithuania.

Minister of Foreign Affairs Gabrielius Landsbergis hopes that this week the European Council will adopt decisions favourable for Ukraine. Yet he admits that so far there are no alternatives in case Hungary keeps blocking talks on Ukraine’s EU accession.

Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Gabrielius Landsbergis is critical of Hungary’s standpoint on Ukraine ahead of the European Council’s meeting that will discuss the European Union’s enlargement.

Minister of Foreign Affairs Gabrielius Landsbergis believes that Lithuania has to step up its national security and defence efforts soon as Russia, aided by its partner Belarus, is bound to continue posing a threat.

Chief of Defence of Lithuania General Valdemaras Rupšys assures the public that there is no reason to doubt NATO’s security guarantees, all the more so as Russia will not have capabilities to attack the alliance in the near future. Minister of Foreign Affairs Gabrielius Landsbergis has meanwhile rai...

Lithuania must reconsider its security concept as soon as possible in response to dramatic developments in the international arena, says Minister of Foreign Affairs Gabrielius Landsbergis. The global structure created after the Cold War is crumbling right in our very eyes and yet Lithuania still avo...

Minister of Foreign Affairs Gabrielius Landsbergis said in a recent interview to the news agency ELTA that Lithuania should reconsider its national security concepts. Commenting about this on Tuesday, the Conservative leader told reporters that Russia has been recovering and is accumulating resource...

China's state-owned utility holds a stake in Ocean Winds, which is set to build an offshore wind farm in Lithuania, along with Ignitis Group, Verslo žinios business news website reports.

Deputy Minister of National Defence Žilvinas Tomkus on Tuesday attended the Foreign Affairs Council (Defence) of the European Union (EU) in Brussels to discuss further military assistance to Ukraine, the ministry said.

The Foreign Ministry on Tuesday summoned the chargé d’affaires of the Russian Embassy in Lithuania Aleksander Elkin and handed a note of protest over the destruction of a memorial plaque to the former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania, Archbishop Mečislovas Reinys in a cemetery of the Russian...

Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis on Monday attends the EU’s Foreign Affairs Council taking place in Luxembourg, the ministry said.

Lithuania’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Gabrielius Landsbergis on Tuesday met with the first residing Ambassador of India to Lithuania Devesh Utttam, the ministry reports.

On 10 October, an Informal video conference of EU ministers of foreign affairs on the situation in Israel and the Middle East region took place in Oman following the attack on Israel by Hamas, reports the Foreign Ministry.

On 9-10 October, Lithuania’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Gabrielius Landsbergis is visiting Oman’s Sultanate, where he attends a meeting of the 27th session of the EU-GCC Joint Ministerial Council to discuss significant security challenges, reports the MFA.

Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Gabrielius Landsbergis on Monday is participating in an informal meeting of the European Union’s foreign ministers in Ukraine.

Minister of Foreign Affairs and Conservative party’s (TS-LKD) leader Gabrielius Landsbergis is yet to decide if he is going to stand as a candidate in presidential elections.

This week, on 18-22 September, Minister of Foreign Affairs Gabrielius Landsbergis will be attending the events of the high-level week of the 78th session of the UN General Assembly in New York, the ministry said in a press release.