Oct 28, 2009 - Passions aroused over CIA prison...VILNIUS - A frightful hobgoblin stalks throughout Lithuania. Lithuanians are haunted by the ghost of the alleged CIA prison for al Qaeda members. Those passions over the prison were fueled by statements by Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite.
On Oct. 15, Grybauskaite rejected the idea of taking prisoners from Guantanamo. “There will be no decision on this issue until the shadow of the alleg...
Oct 21, 2009 - Old new Lithuanian commissioner...VILNIUS - On Oct. 15, the Lithuanian parliament confirmed the candidacy of Algirdas Semeta to occupy a post in the European Commission. The decision was approved by the votes of the ruling center-right majority in the parliament - 64 MPs supported his candidacy and 28 MPs voted against, while 21 MPs abstained.
Semeta will be kind of an old new commissioner because, since July, he has been working...
Oct 14, 2009 - Rasmussen reassures on NATO security guarantees...VILNIUS - NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, visiting the Baltic countries, arrived at Zokniai Air Base near the northern Lithuanian town of Siauliai on Oct. 9. Now the base hosts a German detachment of fighter planes, provided for the NATO air policing mission in the Baltic states. He met with Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite there. Rasmussen said that the Baltics should not be ...
Oct 07, 2009 - Dealing with totalitarian regimes...VILNIUS - The first reading of a draft amendment to the penal code, which provoked angry reactions in Moscow, took place in the Lithuanian parliament on Sept. 29. The draft states that a person who justifies Soviet and Nazi occupations could be sentenced to up to two years of prison.
The draft was passed in the first reading when 41 MPs voted in favor of it and 25 MPs voted against, while 13 MPs ...
Oct 07, 2009 - Buzek shows solidarity...VILNIUS - European Parliament President Jerzy Buzek paid a one-day official visit to Lithuania on Oct. 2, traveling from Riga where he was also on an official visit. Buzek’s task was to show solidarity with this region’s countries in a time of economic crisis.
While in Riga, Buzek, former prime minister of Poland and activist of the anti-Communist Solidarity movement, met with Russian-speaking...