Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Lithuania
On 18 January, the Permanent Representative of the Republic of Lithuania to the United Nations Office and other International Organizations in Geneva Ambassador Darius Staniulis presented the Letters of Credence to the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva H.E. Ms Tatiana Valovaya.
On 16 January, during his visit to Baghdad, Iraq, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Gabrielius Landsbergis met with the Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Khadimi and the Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein.
On 14 January, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Gabrielius Landsbergis met with the new German Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs Annalena Baerbock on the margins of the informal meeting of the Foreign Ministers of the European Union (Gymnich) in Brest, France. The meeting focused on bilateral issues, the key challenges facing the region and a possible joint EU response to China’s economic pressure.
On 11 January, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Gabrielius Landsbergis met with Franziska Brantner, Parliamentary State Secretary in Germany's Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action, and discussed China’s economic pressure on Lithuania, as well as the European Union's possible common decisions and measures in response to China’s economic pressure on one of the EU member states.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs informs that Lithuania's Chargé d’affaires ad interim in China Audra Čiapienė returns to Vilnius for consultations.
During an official ceremony on 13 December, the Ambassador of Lithuania to Croatia Jūratė Raguckienė presented her letters of credence to the President of Kosovo Vjosna Osmani-Sadriu.
On 8 December, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Gabrielius Landsbergis together with the United States Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken opened the event 'Voices of Political Prisoners'. Co-hosted by the U.S.A. and Lithuania, the official side event complemented the online Summit for Democracy that was initiated by the U.S. President Joe Biden by highlighting the plight of more than one million political prisoners and underlining the need for increased international collaboration to press for their release.
On 1 December in Riga, on the margins of the NATO Foreign Ministers’ meeting, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Gabrielius Landsbergis met with the United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken, thanked him for the U.S. contribution to regional security, and reminded that it was important to continue strengthening the Alliance's forces in the region in view of emerging security challenges.
On 24 November in Washington, D.C., the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Gabrielius Landsbergis met with the United States Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Ruth Sherman. The meeting focused on the alarming security challenges facing the region, Russia’s aggressive behaviour in the neighbourhood, the situation on the border with Belarus, as well as other issues of strategic partnership and further cooperation.
On 23 November, during the visit of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Gabrielius Landsbergis to Washington, D.C., the United States of America, a contract for export guarantees or direct loans, worth up to 600 million dollars, was signed with the Export-Import Bank of the United States.
On 23 November, during the visit of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Gabrielius Landsbergis to Washington, D.C., the first bilateral meeting of the Lithuania-U.S. strategic dialogue on the Indo-Pacific region took place in the history of our state.
On 23 November, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania summoned a representative of the Embassy of Belarus to Lithuania and handed him a note of protest over the plans to launch the second Unit of the Belarusian nuclear power plant (NPP) at the end of 2021.
Minister of Foreign Affairs Gabrielius Landsbergis is going to pay a visit to Washington, the United States of America, on 23 to 25 November.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs regrets the decision of the People‘s Republic of China not to return ambassadors and change the level of the diplomatic relations between Lithuania and China to that of charge d’affaires.
On 20 November, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Gabrielius Landsbergis met with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Montenegro Đorđe Radulović, who was taking part in the international high-level forum on defending against authoritarianism “The Future of Democracy” in Vilnius.
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