Arrival and doorstep.

At the informal ministerial meeting of the foreign ministers of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe that opened in the Austrian town of Mauerbach on 11 July 2017 Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs, Neris Germanas, drew attention to the deadlock in the negotiations on the Russian aggression against Ukraine and called on the OSCE to continue prioritising them in the OSCE agenda.

On 4 July, two young South Africans, selected to participate in the Transparency International School of Integrity which takes place in Vilnius on 10-16 July, were congratulated at the Lithuanian Embassy in Pretoria.

Amb. Vaidotas Verba

Candidate of Lithuania for the post of the Director-General of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW)

Use of chemical weapons in Syria brought massive casualties, economic and social losses and fear, at an unprecedented level in modern history. Recent  reports of use and threat of use of chemcal weapons in Syria continue to alert international community. Existence of chemical weapons and other weapons of mass destruction carry out the risk that terrorists take the sites with weapons of mass destruction and related materials. Terrorists acquiring a chemical or nuclear device or biological material could spread massive murder and destruction far grater than any other terrorist attack conducted so far.

On 28 June in Vilnius, the Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Neris Germanas met with the Ambassador of Benin to Lithuania Eusèbe Agbangla, who presented his letters of credence to the President of Lithuania Dalia Grybauskaitė.

Lithuania opened its Honorary Consulate in Guayaquil, Ecuador’s largest city. It is headed by the entrepreneur Miguel Weisson Chiriboga.

On 26 June, the Honorary Consulate of Lithuania was officially opened in Quito, the capital city of Ecuador. It is headed by the lawyer and entrepreneur Raúlis Neptalí Jaramillo Andrade.

On 23 June, the Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Neris German met with Vietnam’s candidate for the post of Director-General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), Ambassador Pham Sanh Chau, who arrived in Lithuania to present his candidacy.

On 22 June in Astana, the Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Darius Skusevičius met with the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan Roman Vasilenko. They discussed political and economic cooperation, prospects for bilateral relations in the field of transport, as well as cooperation between Kazakhstan and the European Union.

It is important for the Council of the Baltic Sea States (CBSS) to keep in mind its primary objective of promoting intergovernmental political dialogue in the region, said the Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Neris Germanas at the informal ministerial meeting of the CBSS in Reykjavík. The ministerial meeting was held on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the CBSS.