On 11 August in Windhoek, the capital city of Namibia, the Ambassador of Lithuania to the Republic of South Africa and the Republic of Angola Sigutė Jakštonytė presented her letters of credence to the President of Namibia Hage Geingob.

On 10 August, the Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Darius Skusevičius met with the outgoing Ambassador of Tajikistan to Lithuania Kozidavlat Koimdodov, who resides in Minsk.

On 9 August, the Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Darius Skusevičius met with members of the delegation of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration of the Republic of Ghana.

On 4 August, the Permanent Representative of the Republic of Lithuania to UNESCO Irena Vaišvilaitė presented her letters of credence to Irina Bokova, Director-General of the organization.

On 27 July in Ottawa, Canada, Lithuania’s Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs Albinas Zananavičius met with the Deputy Minister for International Trade of Canada Timothy Sargent to discuss prospects for bilateral trade and closer economic cooperation.

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.