On Wednesday, President of Lithuania Gitanas Nausėda said in his speech at the 78th Session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York that working for sustainable peace in Ukraine the international community should ensure the accountability of those responsible for war crimes and crimes aga...
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Finland faced a moment of truth on February 24, 2022. In case Ukraine’s defense would have collapsed, Finland’s security policy of non-alignment would have been worth of nothing. The Finnish leaders had to make a choice almost by overnight either to give up non-alignment or to remain increasingly un...
Deputy Justice Minister Gabija Grigaitė-Daugirdė has welcomed the recent decision of the Prosecutor General’s Office to open a pre-trial investigation into alleged transfers of Ukrainian children to Belarus.
In December 2014 Barack Obama's administration warned Lithuania about a forthcoming US Senate report on secret CIA prisons.
Lithuania's government does not rule out cooperation with the International Criminal Court on the US Central Intelligence Agency's alleged prison near Vilnius, however, sticks to its version that Antaviliai accommodated an intelligence support center rather than a secret interrogation center.
The International Criminal Court's prosecutor on Monday asked for authorization to investigate alleged crimes committed during the armed conflict in Afghanistan, including allegations that suspected terrorists were tortured in a secret detention facility in Lithuania.
Lithuania may face additional international pressure over suspicions that Americans operated a secret prison for terror suspects near Vilnius a decade ago as prosecutors of the International Criminal Court (ICC) are considering launching a full-scale investigation into allegations that prisoners wer...