Lithuanian Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis is inviting the foreign minister and several ambassadors to discuss the country's relations with Russia and other Eastern countries.
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The actions of the far-right group the Right Sector in Ukraine does not contribute to reforms and stability in the country, says Lithuania's Ambassador Marius Janukonis.
Lithuania has not made any decisions about supplying weaponry to Ukraine, says the country's Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevicius.
Ambassadors do not pop up out of the blue and, for Marius Janukonis, Lithuania’s new Ambassador to Ukraine, the journey has been, he says, “a natural course of the diplomatic career”. But landing a diplomatic post in a country like Ukraine is obviously “a big challenge”, he agrees.
Lithuania's new Ambassador to Ukraine Marius Janukonis has handed credentials to the country's President Petro Poroshenko, the Foreign Ministry said.
Lithuania is contributing to the founding of two psychological rehabilitation centres in Dnepropetrovsk and Poltava regions in Eastern Ukraine to provide services to persons affected by the war there.
Lithuania's new Ambassador in Kiev Marius Janukonis says that Ukraine currently has many economic problems, which might give cause for dissatisfaction among the population. However, he believes that any unrest would most likely be spurred by groups not eager about the country's European future.
Director of the Lithuanian Foreign Ministry's Eastern Neighbourhood Policy Department, Marius Janukonis, will be appointed as Lithuania's new ambassador to Ukraine.
Diplomat Marius Janukonis is set to be appointed Lithuania's ambassador to Ukraine, the Lietuvos Žinios daily reports citing sources.
