Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Lithuania
In cooperation with the outsourcing service provider VFS Global, the Visa Application Centres for Lithuania were opened in the United States of America.
On 5 December, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Linas Linkevičius met with Georgia’s Minister of Foreign Affairs David Zalkaliani and the Minister of Foreign Affairs of North Macedonia Nikola Dimitrov, and discussed the recent escalation of the situation along the occupation line of South Ossetia.
On 2 December, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Linas Linkevičius met with the delegation led by the State Secretary of the Slovak Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs František Ružička. The meeting discussed the Slovak Chairmanship of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) and preparations for the OSCE Ministerial Council on 5 and 6 December in Bratislava.
On 29 November, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Linas Linkevičius expressed his condolences to a close friend of Lithuania, Chairman of Japan-Lithuania Friendship Diet Members' League Hirofumi Nakasone on the passing of his father, former Prime Minister of Japan Yasuhiro Nakasone. In these moments of loss, the Foreign Minister wished the family and relatives the strength to bear the great pain.
On 28 November, the Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Neris Germanas met with the new Ambassador of Australia to Lithuania Lloyd Brodrick, who resides in Warsaw. On the same day, the Ambassador presented his letters of credence to the President Gitanas Nausėda.
On 28 November, the Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Neris Germanas met with the new Ambassador of the Philippines to Lithuania Leah M. Basinang-Ruiz.
On 28 November, the Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Neris Germanas met with the new Ambassador of Jordan to Lithuania, Dr. Nawaf Wasfi Tell. The meeting focused on opportunities to expand bilateral relations and possible intensified cooperation in the areas of high technology, food industry, and education.
On 26 November, the Ambassador of Lithuania to Romania Violeta Motulaitė presented her letters of credence to the President of Romania Klaus Werner Iohannis.
On 14 November, the Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Neris Germanas met with the new Ambassador of Montenegro to Lithuania, Dr. Budimir Šegrt, who came to present his letters of credence to the President of Lithuania Gitanas Nausėda.
On 14 November, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Linas Linkevičius met with the first Ambassador of Bahrain to Lithuania, who resides in Paris, Muhammad Abdul Ghaffar. The meeting discussed bilateral cooperation and security in the Middle East.
On 14 November, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Linas Linkevičius met with the new Ambassador of Kuwait, who resides in Berlin, Najeeb Al-Bader. The meeting discussed possible cooperation between Lithuania and Kuwait in the fields of financial services, agriculture, science and innovation, as well as security in the Middle East.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania closely monitors the situation in the Republic of Moldova after its Government lost a no-confidence vote in the Parliament on 12 November.
On 7 November, the first political consultations between Lithuania and Qatar took place in Vilnius. The two delegations were led by the Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Neris Germanas and the Secretary General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Qatar Dr. Ahmad Hassan Al Hamadi.
On 4 November, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Linas Linkevičius met with the Czech Foreign Minister Tomáš Petříček in Prague.
On 30 October, the Ambassador of Lithuania to Austria Donatas Kušlys presented his credentials to Alois, Hereditary Prince of Liechtenstein, in Vaduz, Liechtenstein.
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