President Dalia Grybauskaitė awarded the Life Saving Cross to Lithuanian citizens who risked their lives and the lives of their families to rescue Jews from death and persecution during World War II. This year marks the 77th anniversary of the Holocaust in Lithuania, and on September 23 we will commemorate the 75th anniversary of the destruction of the Vilnius Ghetto. State decorations were awarded to 39 rescuers of Jews on the occasion of the National Memorial Day for the Genocide of Lithuanian Jews. Most of them have already passed away, so the ceremony was attended by their children, grandchildren, great grandchildren and other family members.
President Dalia Grybauskaitė extended congratulations to Marie Louise Coleiro Preca, President of the Republic of Malta on Independence Day. According to the President, Lithuania values the increasingly expanding cooperation between Lithuania and Malta in dealing with the most important continental issues, defending common positions in the EU, developing bilateral dialogue, economic relations and friendly people-to-people contacts.
The informal European Council summit hosted by Austria, which currently holds the EU presidency, has Brexit and EU...
European leaders who have gathered for an informal summit in the fourth largest Austrian city of Salzburg are...
President Dalia Grybauskaitė is leaving for Salzburg to attend an informal European Council meeting, which will focus...
President Dalia Grybauskaitė is attending the Three Seas Initiative Summit in Romania. Within this framework, the...
President Dalia Grybauskaitė extended congratulations to Sebastián Piñera, President of the Republic of Chile on independence anniversary. According to the President, the dialogue between Lithuania and Chile as well as extensive cooperation ties between the European Union and Chile have grown stronger over the recent years. Shared approach to issues on the international agenda leads to many successful cooperation opportunities in international organizations as we search for a joint response to common challenges. It also opens increasingly more avenues for our countries to enhance trade relations and for our...
President Dalia Grybauskaitė is leaving for Bucharest to attend the Three Seas Initiative Summit. The summit, launched by the leaders of twelve countries bordering the Baltic, the Black and the Adriatic Seas, will focus on regional cooperation as well as on priority interconnectivity projects in the fields of energy, transport and digitalization. This is the third such summit, which will gather Lithuanian, Polish and Romanian presidents, top leaders of Latvia, Estonia, Austria, Slovenia, Slovakia, Hungary, Bulgaria, and the Czech Republic along with the European Commission President, senior representatives...
President Dalia Grybauskaitė extended congratulations to Enrique Peña Nieto, President of the United Mexican States, on independence day. In her message of congratulations, the President underlined that Mexico was an important partner of Europe, sharing the same responsible approach and joint response to many topical global challenges, such as climate change and trade. According to the President, the European Union and Mexico are opening increasingly more cooperation opportunities in economic and investment areas.
President Dalia Grybauskaitė together with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Latvian Prime Minister Māris Kučinskis...
President Dalia Grybauskaitė met with Angela Merkel, Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany. The purpose of...
Life Saving Cross awards ceremony (Presidential Palace, S. Daukanto a. 3)
Informal European Council summit in Austria
The President attends an informal European Council summit in Salzburg
The President attends the Three Seas Initiative Summit in Bucharest
The President attends the Three Seas Initiative Summit and the celebration of Romania's Great Union Centennial
The President meets with German Chancellor, Latvian and Estonian Prime Ministers
The President attends the Three Seas Initiative Summit in Bucharest
The President meets Angela Merkel, Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany
Meeting with Sergio Mattarella, President of the Italian Republic
The President meets with King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands
The President attends the Nordic-Baltic Midsummer celebration
