LITHUANIAN PARLT PANEL GREENLIGHTS SETTING UP EMBASSY IN ARMENIA
Baltic News Service
February 28, 2007 Wednesday 3:06 PM EET
The parliamentary Foreign Affairs Committee deliberated the matter
of setting up Lithuania’s embassy in Armenia and unanimously approved
of the motion from the Foreign Ministry on Wednesday.
The parliamentary public relations department has reported that the
embassy in Armenia would be set up as of October this year.
Since 2004, Lithuania has been identifying the relationship with South
Caucasus countries as a foreign policy priority — Lithuania already
has a diplomatic representation in Georgia; in January, the country
established its embassy in Azerbaijan as well.
According to the press release, currently the ties with Armenia are
developing quite fast to include more and more essential areas like
politics, military, economy and culture.
By having a diplomatic presentation in South Caucasus, Lithuania is
aiming both at making its own contribution in shaping the European
Unions eastern policy and at strengthening the country’s national
and energy security and establishing itself as a centre of regional
cooperation.