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| Identifier | Subject | Date | Office | Classification | Tags |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 04BRUSSELS5159 |
EU ENLARGEMENT DRIVES GRADUAL HARDENING IN EU [...] (C) Summary: The November 25 EU-Russia summit reflected a shift in the EU,s approach to Russia toward a tougher, more disciplined policy, a process that began following what many Member States viewed as Italian Prime Minister Berlusconi's pandering to Russian President Putin at the 2003 summit. [...] |
2004-12-07 16:39:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PREL RS PL LH NL UK GM IT FR EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04VILNIUS1065 |
AMERICAN RABBI CONTENDS LITHUANIAN PROPERTY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Escalating discord within Lithuania's Jewish community has surpassed the bounds of a religious dispute and threatens to become a fight over community property. At the center of the dispute is Rabbi Sholom Ber Krinsky, an American citizen, who publicly contends that Jewish commu [...] |
2004-09-02 14:19:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV SOCI CASC LH |
| 04VILNIUS1117 |
LITHUANIAN MINISTRIES WORKING ON EUROCONTROL FEE [...] (U) We have approached the MFA at various levels to seek an exemption of U.S. military and other U.S. state aircraft from air navigation, overflight, and terminal navigation fees. MFA Undersecretary Sarunas Adomavicius promised the Ambassador on August 31 to look into the matter, and others w [...] |
2004-09-14 14:46:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | MARR MOPS EAIR KREC LH |
| 04VILNIUS1190 |
LITHUANIA FIRMLY OPPOSED TO LIFTING ARMS EMBARGO [...] (C) The Charge delivered ref A points concerning the European Union China arms embargo to Zygimantas Pavilionis, MFA Political Director and Director of the EU Department, on September 29. The Charge highlighted the key reasons for the maintaining the embargo and high level of concern for this [...] |
2004-09-30 12:20:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL ETTC PHUM CH LH |
| 04VILNIUS1194 |
LITHUANIA SUPPORTS TURKEY'S EU MEMBERSHIP [...] (C) We delivered reftel points regarding support for Turkey's EU membership and provided non-paper on Turkey's progress on Copenhagen criteria to the MFA's Jurgita Apanaviciute on September 27. Apanaviciute, who is responsible for enlargement issues within the MFA's European Union Department, [...] |
2004-09-30 12:58:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECIN EU TU LH |
| 04VILNIUS1196 |
LITHUANIAN PARLIAMENT PASSES REVISED INTERNATIONAL [...] (U) Summary. The Lithuanian parliament September 29 approved a bill raising the ceiling on the number of troops deployable in international operations and extending authorization of current missions through December 31, 2005. The bill mandates that Lithuania deploy an all-volunteer force and [...] |
2004-09-30 13:49:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MCAP MOPS PGOV PREL LH |
| 04VILNIUS1237 |
THE VIEW FROM ALYTUS: THE BLOOM IS OFF THE LABOR [...] SUMMARY. Less than a week before Lithuania's parliamentary election, few in Alytus doubt that the Labor Party will taste electoral success. However, a growing number question the Labor Party's populist promises and will support Lithuania's more tested traditional parties. End Summary. Aly [...] |
2004-10-08 10:37:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV LH |
| 04VILNIUS1239 |
LITHUANIAN CHEESE CAPITAL NODS LEFT, BUT WITH [...] SUMMARY: Rokiskis is a town of approximately 16,000 located in northeastern Lithuania and the capital of a productive agricultural region famous for the cheese brand that bears its name. The director of the cheese factory, sharing the spotlight with the visiting Prime Minister, was the local [...] |
2004-10-08 10:52:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV SOCI LH |
| 04VILNIUS1243 |
People in the Provincial Town will Vote for Change [...] Voters in the small town of Rietavas, in western Lithuania, see themselves as microcosm for the nation (if a bit more agricultural) and believe their vote in the upcoming election will mirror the country's vote as a whole. In Rietavas, it appears that the Labor Party will win big. End summar [...] |
2004-10-08 12:54:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV LH |
| 04VILNIUS1245 |
LITHUANIAN PRE-ELECTION WATCH: A SMALL TOWN LEANS [...] Summary. An incumbent from the ruling Social Democrats is paradoxically running on an anti-establishment platform and is likely to win re-election in the town of Anyksciai, 62 miles west of Vilnius. Residents are concerned with job security, the lack of youth employment options, and rising h [...] |
2004-10-08 13:19:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV LH |
| 04VILNIUS1261 |
LABOR PARTY WINS ROUND ONE OF LITHUANIAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Lithuania's Labor Party took the greatest number of votes in the October 10 first round of parliamentary elections, but failed to win enough seats to form a government or even ensure their leadership when all the votes are in. The coalition of ruling parties finished second, in l [...] |
2004-10-12 14:50:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL LH |
| 04VILNIUS1292 |
LITHUANIAN POLITICAL LEADERS AFFIRM SUPPORT FOR [...] (C) SUMMARY: Meetings we facilitated between American Jewish Committee official Andrew Baker and key Lithuanian political leaders October 13-17 resulted in a reaffirmed commitment to restitute communal Jewish property. On the eve of round two of parliamentary elections, President Valdas Adamk [...] |
2004-10-19 11:55:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KNAR PHUM LH |
| 04VILNIUS1315 |
LITHUANIAN GOVERNMENT SPLIT ON REACTOR CLOSURE [...] (SBU) Prime Minister Algirdas Brazauskas announced on October 21 that the GOL would ask the EU permission to postpone the decommissioning of the first of the two Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant units. Brazauskas said regional energy supply security justified the delay. President Valdas Adamkus, [...] |
2004-10-22 12:59:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG PREL LH |
| 04VILNIUS1323 |
LABOR LEADS LITHUANIAN ELECTIONS; BRAZAUSKAS WILL [...] (C) Summary. Victor Uspaskich's Labor Party won a plurality in the final round of Lithuanian parliamentary elections, October 24, but failed to guarantee its place in a ruling coalition. Over the next few weeks, President Valdas Adamkus must invite the leader of the winning party or coalitio [...] |
2004-10-25 15:47:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL LH |
| 04VILNIUS1350 |
LITHUANIA: RUSSIAN TEAM COMPLETES UNEVENTFUL VDOC [...] (C) Summary. A team from the Russian Federation conducted a Vienna Document inspection of Lithuanian military facilities on October 27-28. The inspection covered army and air force facilities in Kaunas, Panevezys, and Siauliai, including NATO's Baltic air policing assets at the Zokniai airfi [...] |
2004-10-29 10:41:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM MOPS LH |
| 04VILNIUS1352 |
THE END OF THE RAINBOW: COALITION TALKS WITH [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Conservative Party suspended formal talks with the Brazauskas-Paulauskas coalition on October 28, following major disagreement over the constitution of a so-called "rainbow coalition." Immediately following the collapse of talks, the Brazauskas-Paulauskas coalition formally a [...] |
2004-10-29 13:29:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL LH |
| 04VILNIUS1353 |
LITHUANIA CONCERNED OVER RUSSIAN AIR INCURSIONS [...] (C) Summary. Lithuania's opposition to hosting a Baltic regional air safety conference under NATO-Russia Council (NRC) auspices (ref A) is rooted in its assessment that Russian policy aims to disrupt NATO relations with its newest members and raise pressure on the air policing mission. Though [...] |
2004-10-29 14:14:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MCAP MOPS PBTS PGOV PINS PREL LH |
| 04VILNIUS1369 |
AMBASSADOR IN SIAULIAI STRESSES DEVELOPMENT AND [...] SUMMARY. Ambassador traveled to Lithuania's northern city of Siauliai October 20-21 to conveying a message of admiration for Lithuania's rapid democratic and economic growth and appreciation for its activist foreign policy and contributions to the NATO alliance. In a town often identified wi [...] |
2004-11-05 12:57:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV OVIP LH |
| 04VILNIUS1380 |
LITHUANIA'S 2005 DRAFT BUDGET SHORTS MOD [...] (C) Summary. The draft 2005 GOL budget before the Parliament fulfills Lithuania's NATO commitment to allocate two percent of GDP to defense spending, but falls far short of providing that two percent to the military. The budget increases the share of defense money that will go to other Minis [...] |
2004-11-08 12:16:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MOPS PREL MCAP PINR PGOV LH |
| 04VILNIUS1401 |
LITHUANIA RUSHES TO RATIFY EU CONSTITUTION [...] (C) SUMMARY: Lithuania became the first member state to ratify the EU Constitution on November 11 when the government rushed through a vote on the treaty on one of the Parliament's last days in session. The GOL had previously decided not to hold a national referendum on the Constitution. Opp [...] |
2004-11-12 15:17:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV LH |
| 04VILNIUS1402 |
AMBASSADOR HOSTS IFTAAR FOR LITHUANIA'S MUSLIM [...] (U) SUMMARY: Ambassador Mull celebrated Ramadan on November 5 with 20 leading figures from Lithuania's Muslim community, hosting an Iftaar dinner. The Ambassador highlighted the importance of diversity and tolerance during the event, and Lithuania's chief Islamic religious figure praised the [...] |
2004-11-12 15:54:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | SCUL PHUM LH |
| 04VILNIUS1403 |
LITHUANIAN POLICE SEIZE NINE MILLION COUNTERFEIT [...] Summary. The Lithuanian Police achieved a major victory in the fight against counterfeiting November 6, arresting thirteen people and seizing over nine million counterfeit Euros. The Police believe that the group has been printing Euros for several years. The Police also found printing plat [...] |
2004-11-15 05:22:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC PREL EFIN LH |
| 04VILNIUS1411 |
LITHUANIAN DEFMIN CRITICIZES NATO MEMBERS' [...] (U) Lithuanian Defense Minister Linas Linkevicius, in an interview with the Baltic News Service on November 15, criticized the decision by ten NATO allies not to send instructors to the armed forces training mission in Iraq. Linkevicius remarked that he did not believe this decision, although [...] |
2004-11-16 13:51:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS MASS PGOV PREL LH |
| 04VILNIUS1437 |
LITHUANIA CONDEMNS FRAUDULENT UKRAINIAN ELECTIONS; [...] (C) Summary. Lithuanian government and parliamentary officials strongly condemned reports of fraud in Ukraine's second round of presidential elections. Fully supporting the EU statement on the elections, they noted that Ukraine has apparently been deprived of an opportunity to demonstrate its [...] |
2004-11-24 13:15:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL XH LH |
| 04VILNIUS1442 |
FORMER AMBASSADOR'S CSIS PAPER CAUSES A [...] (SBU) Top TV journalist Edmundas Jakilaitis resigned over an incident in which he reported that a "secret" U.S. document warned of the dangers of Russian influence over Lithuanian politicians such as Russian-born Labor Party Leader Viktor Uspaskich. The document turned out to be written by f [...] |
2004-11-26 09:49:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KPAO PGOV PREL LH RS |
| 04VILNIUS1445 |
LITHUANIAN PRIME MINISTER'S VISION FOR NEW TERM [...] (SBU) The Lithuanian parliament (Seimas) re-elected Prime Minister Algirdas Brazauskas November 25. In a speech to the Seimas November 24, Brazauskas outlined a broad vision for his new term. He promised to utilize EU funds to promote development in priority areas, such as the use, and expor [...] |
2004-11-26 14:01:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV ECON PGOV LH |
| 04VILNIUS1447 |
AIDS IN LITHUANIA [...] As it prepares to celebrate World AIDS Day, Lithuania's incidence of HIV/AIDS is the lowest in Central and Eastern Europe. The GOL is working to keep it that way, despite pressures of rapid social change. Lithuania has a National HIV/AIDS prevention strategy, but poorly monitors its implemen [...] |
2004-11-29 06:24:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO KHIV PREL LH |
| 04VILNIUS1449 |
ADAMKUS JOINS UKRAINE MEDIATION EFFORT [...] (U) Lithuanian President Valdas Adamkus traveled to Kiev November 26 to join Polish President Kwasniewski's mediation efforts as domestic political pressure for Lithuanian engagement continued to mount. Though the scope and direction of Adamkus's involvement remain unclear, his strong democr [...] |
2004-11-29 07:01:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV UK LH |
| 04VILNIUS1450 |
LITHUANIA DECLARES SOLIDARITY WITH UKRAINE; TO [...] (U) The Lithuanian Parliament (Seimas) expressed its solidarity with the people of Ukraine and its support for their democratic objectives. In a vote of 123 to 1, with 3 abstentions, the 141-seat Seimas resolved to support the decision of Ukraine's Supreme Rada to evaluate the results of the [...] |
2004-11-29 16:10:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UP LH |
| 04VILNIUS1454 |
UKRAINE: RUSSIANS REPORTEDLY BLAME U.S. FOR [...] (C) Adamkus expects to return to Ukraine with Kwasniewski and Solana before December 3 to continue mediation efforts, according to a senior adviser. Kwasniewski predicted privately to Adamkus November 30 that Ukraine would likely turn into "another Georgia" within a few days. A November 26 [...] |
2004-11-30 13:47:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UK LH |
| 04VILNIUS1455 |
LITHUANIAN PM PRESENTS CABINET LIST TO A SKEPTICAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: President Valdas Adamkus on November 29 appointed Algirdas Brazauskas the new Prime Minister of Lithuania. Brazauskas, in turn, presented the President with his list of ministerial candidates, which includes Labor Party boss Viktor Uspaskich and Peasant Party leader Kazimiera Pru [...] |
2004-11-30 14:18:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV LH |
| 04VILNIUS1477 |
COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR ACTING ASSISTANT SECRETARY [...] Post warmly welcomes Ambassador Michael Kozak and is pleased to grant country clearance for the period of December 3-6, 2004 to attend the "Advancing Europe Whole and Free: Challenges and Opportunities for Transatlantic Cooperation" conference. 2. Embassy point of contact for your visit is [...] |
2004-12-03 07:34:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA AMGT PGOV PHUM KDEM LI LH |
| 04VILNIUS1488 |
LITHUANIA SUPPORTS E-PINE PAPER ON BELARUS [...] No summary [...] |
2004-12-07 12:34:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KNEI LH |
| 04VILNIUS1489 |
ADAMKUS REPORTS INTERNATIONAL MEDIATION MISSION [...] (C) Adamkus is satisfied with the outcome of the contentious international mediation session in Kiev December 6-7. He predicts that December 26 elections will occur on schedule, but admits that key uncertainties remain. A return of the international mediators to Kiev appears unlikely for no [...] |
2004-12-07 13:26:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL XH LH |
| 04VILNIUS1492 |
LITHUANIA: DEFMIN NOMINEE PLEDGES TO STAY COURSE [...] (C) Summary. President Valdas Adamkus on December 7 nominated Gediminas Kirkilas, a leader of the Social Democrat Party and former Chairman of parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee, to become Minster of Defense in Lithuania's new government. Kirkilas, who will replace fellow Social Democrat [...] |
2004-12-08 11:23:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS PREL MARR MCAP MOPS LH |
| 04VILNIUS1496 |
LITHUANIAN PRESIDENT FORCES CABINET SHAKE-UP [...] (C) Summary: President Valdas Adamkus scored a major political victory on December 7, forcing the ruling coalition of PM Algirdas Brazauskas to replace two Cabinet candidates. Viktoras Muntianas and Rimantas Vaitkus are now out of the line-up, and, if cleared by investigative services, Labor P [...] |
2004-12-08 13:34:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL LH |
| 04VILNIUS1497 |
SUCCESS STORY: AT&T AND LITHUANIAN TELECOM [...] Summary. AT&T and Lietuvos Telekomas, Lithuania's largest fixed-line telecommunications service provider, concluded a new mobile call termination agreement, settling a dispute over rates in Lithuania. Telekomas had threatened to block all AT&T incoming traffic if the two failed to arrive at [...] |
2004-12-08 13:48:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | ECPS ETRD BEXP LH |
| 04VILNIUS1499 |
CSBM BILATERALS GIVE LITHUANIA ADDITIONAL TOOL TO [...] (C) Summary. Lithuania has developed bilateral Confidence and Security Building Measure (CSBM) agreements in accordance with the 1999 Vienna Document of OSCE and CFE requirements with Russia, Belarus and its Nordic neighbors. For Lithuania, the bilateral agreements enhance military transparenc [...] |
2004-12-09 09:51:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM MOPS LH |
| 04VILNIUS1505 |
LITHUANIA TO PROCEED WITH REACTOR CLOSEOUT [...] (C) A GOL resolution on November 24 confirmed that one of two Chernobyl-type Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant (INPP) reactors will close as expected on December 31. The resolution follows GOL-EU consultations in Brussels at which EU experts advised Lithuania to honor its EU accession commitments. [...] |
2004-12-09 14:33:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG PREL LH |
| 04VILNIUS1512 |
CODEL HASTINGS PRAISES LITHUANIAN EFFORTS IN [...] (C) Summary: Congressman Alcee Hastings, attending a GOL-sponsored conference on the promotion of democracy in Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, and the South Caucasus, met with President Adamkus and parliamentary (Seimas) and GOL foreign policy experts on December 3 to discuss the current Ukrainian [...] |
2004-12-13 04:54:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UK BO LH |
| 04VILNIUS1519 |
LITHUANIA SUPPORTS EU ACTION PLAN ON [...] No summary [...] |
2004-12-16 12:15:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KNEI LH |
| 04VILNIUS1520 |
LITHUANIA TO WORK THROUGH EU ON ANY IRAQ [...] (C) Acting AS for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor Michael Kozak on December 3 discussed with Foreign Minister Antanas Valionis the possibility of Lithuania's participation in an Iraqi election observer mission. Ambassador Kozak, in Vilnius for a GOL-sponsored conference on supporting democr [...] |
2004-12-16 12:32:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV LH |
| 04VILNIUS1521 |
MAZEIKIU NAFTA MANAGER EXPRESSES CONCERNS OVER [...] (C) Mazeikiu Nafta (MN) General Manager Nelson English told the Ambassador that the Russian-owned Lukoil company is waiting in the wings to acquire the MN oil refinery in the aftermath of Yukos's "impending and almost certain collapse." According to Amcit English, Moscow is already trying to [...] |
2004-12-16 13:03:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON ENRG LH RS |
| 04VILNIUS1522 |
EU MEMBERSHIP SPURS LITHUANIAN LABOR FLIGHT [...] SUMMARY: Young Lithuanians have left their homeland en masse since the May 1 accession to the EU in search of employment abroad. The exact number leaving remains unclear, although as much as a quarter of the country's working-age population may leave by the end of the year. Some sectors have [...] |
2004-12-16 13:16:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB ECON SMIG PGOV LH |
| 04VILNIUS1523 |
LITHUANIA'S NEW GOVERNMENT TAKES OFFICE WITH BROAD [...] (C) SUMMARY: The 13th Government of Lithuania took power on December 14, when Parliament approved the Cabinet and program of Prime Minister Algirdas Brazauskas. Negotiations over two Ministerial posts proved difficult, with the President forcing substitute nominees and ultimately accepting as [...] |
2004-12-16 13:26:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL LH |
| 04VILNIUS1526 |
IMF'S RECOMMENDATIONS ON HOW TO PROLONG THE [...] An IMF delegation, concluding an Article IV Consultation mission to Lithuania December 10, praised Lithuania's impressive structural improvements and the country's complete transition to a market economy. The IMF delivered an overall positive assessment of the country's economic prospects fo [...] |
2004-12-17 13:37:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV ECON LH |
| 04VILNIUS1532 |
FY2004 CONSULAR PACKAGE NARRATIVE FOR VILNIUS [...] Post submits the following consular package narrative keyed to reftel. Management A) Consular Section Chief: Ruta D. Elvikis (Consul), ETD: July 2005, Direct Office Telephone Number: 370- 5-266-5591, E-mail: ElvikisRD@state.gov; Deputy Consular Section Chief: Gregory L. Bernsteen (Vic [...] |
2004-12-20 10:39:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | CMGT CVIS CASC CPAS KFRD ASIG AFSI LH |
| 04VILNIUS1546 |
NEW LITHUANIAN DEFMIN COMMITS TO CONTINUED SUPPORT [...] (U) This cable contains two action requests. Please see paragraph 13. 2. (C) Summary. New Lithuanian Defense Minister Gediminas Kirkilas told the Ambassador that Lithuania would remain engaged in Afghanistan and Iraq during a December 21 tour d'horizon of our bilateral military-military re [...] |
2004-12-22 12:51:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MARR MOPS MASS LH |
| 04VILNIUS1548 |
New Minister of Interior Furmanavicius Promises [...] (U) Summary: Ambassador Mull met with newly appointed Minister of Interior Ginteras Furmanavicius on December 21, 2004. Furmanavicius thanked the Ambassador for past U.S. efforts to train the Ministry's experts in border security and law enforcement. He stated his commitment to maintaining [...] |
2004-12-22 15:47:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL CMGT ASEC LH |
| 04VILNIUS1556 |
BALTS REPORT RUSSIAN CHARM OFFENSIVE [...] (C) Summary. Russia has launched a "charm offensive" towards the Baltic states that features new movement on bilateral relations, according to Lithuanian officials and Baltic diplomats here. Lithuanian interlocutors point to recent Russian initiatives on long-stalled issues such as bilateral [...] |
2004-12-23 10:58:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PBTS LH |
| 04VILNIUS1566 |
LITHUANIA: 2004 ANNUAL TERRORISM REPORT [...] (U) Post submits the annual terrorism report for Lithuania. Embassy's update on Lithuania for the Department's 2004 Patterns of Global Terrorism report (reftel) is in paras 2-4. 2. (SBU) Lithuania has been fully supportive of the war against terrorism. Lithuania is implementing the Nation [...] |
2004-12-27 14:19:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER ASEC KCRM EFIN KHLS KPAO LH |
| 04VILNIUS1568 |
COUNTER-TERRORISM ACTION GROUP DISCUSSES STATE OF [...] (SBU) Summary. Embassy Vilnius convened a meeting of the Counter-Terrorism Action Group (CTAG) in Lithuania on December 9. Representatives from the French, German, Canadian, Japanese, Spanish, Italian, British, and Russian Embassies, as well as EU and UN representatives, compared notes on co [...] |
2004-12-28 10:03:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER ASEC PREL LH |
| 04VILNIUS1577 |
LITHUANIA SUPPORTS EU-IMIE COOPERATION ON IRAQ [...] No summary [...] |
2004-12-30 12:10:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PROP PREL PHUM IZ LH |
| 04VILNIUS1578 |
2004-2005 INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL STRATEGY [...] In 2004, Lithuania strengthened its counter-narcotics efforts, rolling out a National Drug Addiction Prevention and Drug Control Strategy for 2004-2008. The use and sale of narcotics, however, continues to increase in Lithuania. Lithuania remains a transit route for heroin from Asia to West [...] |
2004-12-30 13:55:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR EFIN KSEP LH |
| 04VILNIUS395 |
LITHUANIA EXPRESSES INTEREST IN THE CD INITIATIVE [...] (U) WE DELIVERED TO LAURYNAS JONUSAUKAS, FIRST SECRETARY OF MFA'S AMERICA'S DIVISION, ON APRIL 7, 2004, REFTEL POINTS AND A COPY OF CHILEAN AMBASSADOR BIANCHI'S LETTER ON THE COMMUNITY OF DEMOCRACY'S INITIATIVE IN EAST TIMOR. JONUSAUKAS EXPRESSED INTEREST IN THE INITIATIVE, AND SAID THAT T [...] |
2004-04-09 06:06:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | KDEM PREL PHUM LH |
| 05VILNIUS1002 |
APPLICABILITY OF AGREEMENT TO PROTECT CULTURAL [...] This is a request for guidance. Please see paragraph 12. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (C) International and American Jewish groups have expressed concerns regarding two construction projects on or near a large Jewish cemetery not far from the center of Vilnius. One is a multi-use buildin [...] |
2005-09-22 08:17:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KTIA LH |
| 05VILNIUS1004 |
EXTRADITION REQUEST FOR DARIUS RAMANAUSKAS [...] This cable addresses reftel request for information regarding the extradition of Lithuanian citizen Darius Ramanauskas on narcotics charges. Post assesses the likelihood that Lithuanian authorities might use torture to extract testimony from Ramanauskas as highly doubtful, especially given th [...] |
2005-09-22 09:55:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | CJAN KCRM SNAR LH |
| 05VILNIUS1007 |
ADAMKUS UPSET ABOUT CONOCOPHILLIPS-LUKOIL BID ON [...] (S) SUMMARY: ConocoPhillips (CP) and Lukoil's plan to submit a joint bid to buy a controlling share of Mazeikiu Nafta (MN) has met with strong expressions of concern from some elements of the GOL, including President Adamkus. Representatives of the two firms visited Vilnius September 19 to pi [...] |
2005-09-23 10:04:00 | Embassy Vilnius | SECRET | EINV ECON PREL PGOV ENRG LH |
| 05VILNIUS101 |
AMBASSADOR PROMOTES U.S.-LITHUANIA RELATIONS, [...] (C) SUMMARY: Ambassador Mull traveled to the provincial city of Mazeikiai, home to the Mazeikiu Nafta oil refinery, January 19-20 to convey a message of close U.S.-Lithuanian ties. He also focused on efforts to combat corruption, intolerance, HIV/AIDS, and trafficking-in-persons. Mazeikiu Na [...] |
2005-01-28 13:59:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ENRG OVIP ELAB PGOV LH |
| 05VILNIUS1012 |
SU-27 CRASH: LITHUANIA TAKING DECISIONS ON BLACK [...] (C) Summary. The GOL accepted Ukraine's offer of assistance in analyzing data on the black boxes recovered from the Russian Su-27. The Government softened its rhetoric against Russia today, stating that there is no evidence to prove the Russian aircraft willfully violated Lithuanian airspace [...] |
2005-09-23 16:28:00 | Embassy Vilnius | SECRET | MOPS PGOV PINS PREL LH RS UP |
| 05VILNIUS1013 |
SECURITY ENVIRONMENT PROFILE QUESTIONNAIRE (SEPQ) [...] DEMONSTRATIONS A. ARE THERE ANY ETHNIC OR RELIGIOUS COMMUNITIES IN COUNTRY CAPABLE OF CARRYING OUT SIGNIFICANT ANTI-AMERICAN DEMONSTRATIONS? No B. HAVE THERE BEEN ANTI-AMERICAN DEMONSTRATIONS IN THE COUNTRY WITHIN THE LAST 12 MONTHS? No C. HAVE DEMONSTRATIONS TAKEN PLACE NEAR OR IN [...] |
2005-09-23 16:28:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC LH PTER |
| 05VILNIUS1017 |
UPDATE ON SU-27 CRASH INVESTIGATION [...] (C) The GOL's leadership continued to take a softer line on September 26 on the crash of a Russian Su-27 in Lithuania on September 15 (ref A). A senior briefer stated today that the GOL has "no evidence" that Russia intentionally violated Lithuanian airspace. Work on decoding the black boxes [...] |
2005-09-26 15:18:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS PGOV PINS PREL RS UP LH |
| 05VILNIUS1022 |
LITHUANIA'S DRUG CONTROL STRATEGY [...] (SBU) Overall drug use and addiction rates in Lithuania are low, and policymakers are debating how to keep them that way. To encourage that discussion, Embassy Vilnius hosted a half-day conference on USG policy regarding drug prevention and treatment for over 60 influential decision-makers fro [...] |
2005-09-27 13:19:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV SNAR LH |
| 05VILNIUS1023 |
CHINA,S RELATIONSHIP WITH LITHUANIA: FORM OVER [...] (C) China's diplomatic and economic profile in Lithuania is growing. There are more visits by official Chinese, an expanding diplomatic presence, and a burgeoning commercial relationship. GOL officials have told us that they see clear signs of greater Chinese interest in Lithuania. Increas [...] |
2005-09-27 13:19:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL CH LH |
| 05VILNIUS1029 |
LITHUANIA: EXTREMISM IS CONTAINED, BUT INTOLERANCE [...] SUMMARY. (U) Manifestations of extremism in Lithuania are infrequent, mostly localized, and rarely virulent. Extremists exist, but their political clout here is minute. Expressions of intolerance, including anti-Semitism, are more common than acts of violence or vandalism, although infrequent [...] |
2005-09-28 13:59:00 | Embassy Vilnius | SECRET | PREL KDEM KPAO EAID PHUM KMPI LH |
| 05VILNIUS103 |
PRT ROADMAP: FROM LITHUANIA TO AFGHANISTAN [...] (C) Summary. In order to build upon our diplomatic success securing Lithuanian leadership of a Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) in Afghanistan, the USG should now move quickly to formalize plans to provide tangible deliverables to the GOL. Lithuania is urgently seeking Washington commitm [...] |
2005-01-28 14:32:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS MCAP PGOV PREL LH |
| 05VILNIUS104 |
LITHUANIA: FOREIGN MINISTER HINTS AT RUSSIAN HAND [...] (C) Foreign Minister Valionis told Ambassador Mull January 27 he suspects Russian special services are behind recent public charges that he and State Security Department (VSD) chief Pocius had obscured past KGB links. Valionis, citing reports of Russian unhappiness over his recent role in th [...] |
2005-01-28 14:38:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL RS LH |
| 05VILNIUS1046 |
SU-27 UPDATE: INVESTIGATION PROCEEDS, PILOT REMAINS [...] (C) Summary: GOL defense leadership told the Ambassador September 30 that the black box data supports the conclusion that the September 15 intrusion of a Russian Su-27 into Lithuanian airspace and subsequent crash was accidental. GOL leaders publicly and privately express frustration at the [...] |
2005-09-30 15:03:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS PGOV PINS PREL RS UP LH |
| 05VILNIUS1049 |
TERRORIST FINANCING: LITHUANIA ACCEPTS EU COURT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Acting Head of the MFA's Threat Analysis Division told us on September 28 that Lithuania continues to support dialogue to ensure effective sanctions against terrorist financing. Stonys said that the GOL is pleased that the European Court of First Instance (ECI) decided the [...] |
2005-10-03 14:45:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN KTFN KPAO PREL PGOV PTER LH |
| 05VILNIUS1050 |
GOL WILL PRESS UKRAINE ON NATO MUNITIONS PROJECT [...] No summary [...] |
2005-10-03 14:59:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM PREL MASS UP LH |
| 05VILNIUS1057 |
SCENESETTER FOR CODEL KOLBE [...] Congressman Kolbe, thanks to you and your colleagues for traveling to Lithuania. Your visit here will provide an opportunity to show gratitude to Lithuania for its staunch and unwavering support in the U.S.-led Global War on Terror, including its decision to establish and lead a Provincial Re [...] |
2005-10-04 07:04:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL OVIP BO LH |
| 05VILNIUS1062 |
GOL SUPPORTS DESIGNATING LTTE AS TERRORIST GROUP [...] No summary [...] |
2005-10-05 05:20:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KTFN PREL PTER CO LH |
| 05VILNIUS1070 |
SU-27 CRASH INVESTIGATION ENDS, PILOT SET TO [...] (SBU) Lithuania's Prosecutor General on October 6 closed the investigation of Russian pilot Valery Troyanov's involvement in the September 15 crash of a Russian Su-27 in Lithuania (ref A) and lifted his house arrest. Press reports indicate that Troyanov and his wife plan to depart Lithuania [...] |
2005-10-06 16:22:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS PGOV PINS PREL RS LH |
| 05VILNIUS1075 |
TERRORISM FINANCE COORDINATION OFFICER FOR [...] (SBU) The Terrorism Finance Coordinating Officer (TFCO) for Embassy Vilnius is DCM Tom Kelly, tel: 370-5-266-5535, e-mail: kellytp@state.gov. The TFCO Deputy is Scott Woodard, Economic Officer, tel: 370-5-266-5500, e-mail: woodards@state.gov. 2. (U) We believe it would be useful and conv [...] |
2005-10-07 15:01:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER KTFN KVPR EFIN ETTC PREL LH |
| 05VILNIUS1076 |
LITHUANIA TRIES TO EXPLAIN AWAY [...] (C) Summary: Lithuanian Foreign Minister Valionis accepted U.S. and EU Presidency criticism of recent Lithuanian machinations regarding Belarus October 7. His top policy deputy acknowledged that Lithuania was "damaged" by the meeting earlier this week between the Lithuanian and Belarusian [...] |
2005-10-07 15:20:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PREL PGOV BO LH |
| 05VILNIUS1093 |
CODEL KOLBE AND BELARUSIAN OPPOSITION DISCUSS [...] (C) Summary: The congressional delegation led by Congressman Jim Kolbe expressed unwavering commitment to a diverse group of Belarusian opposition leaders and pledged its continued support for democratic change in Belarus. Two U.S. NGOs, the International Republican Institute and the Nation [...] |
2005-10-12 14:14:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PINR BO LH |
| 05VILNIUS1100 |
LITHUANIA'S NEWEST IMMIGRANTS [...] SUMMARY: Immigration to Lithuania is increasing, with foreign workers filling gaps in the local economy as Lithuanians continue to emigrate in large numbers. Countries of the former Soviet Union, notably Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine, are the primary source of Lithuania's immigrants. With some [...] |
2005-10-14 11:27:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SMIG ELAB ECON PGOV LH |
| 05VILNIUS1103 |
CODEL KOLBE DISCUSSES GLOBAL WAR ON TERROR AND [...] (SBU) Summary. Representative Jim Kolbe led a six-Member congressional delegation to Vilnius October 10-12. The delegation discussed democracy-building initiatives in the region, reviewed U.S. bilateral and multilateral foreign assistance programs, and Lithuania's relationship with Russia wi [...] |
2005-10-14 14:19:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ENRG LH |
| 05VILNIUS1121 |
YOUR VISIT TO LITHUANIA [...] (C) Mr. Secretary, you will arrive in Lithuania this weekend with our relations with this small but steadfast ally at their best level yet. Lithuania supports and participates in every major U.S. foreign policy initiative. Its Provincial Reconstruction Team in Chagcharan, Afghanistan -- whi [...] |
2005-10-19 14:46:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV LH |
| 05VILNIUS1136 |
GOL CONSIDERS ADDITIONAL AID TO PAKISTAN VIA NATO [...] No summary [...] |
2005-10-21 15:58:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | AEMR ASEC EAID MASS PGOV PREF PREL LH |
| 05VILNIUS1153 |
(S) MTAG 03-03: GOL CONFIRMS END-USE OF MACEDONIAN [...] (S) Donatas Ziugzda, Head of the MFA's Arms Control, Non-proliferation and Disarmament Division, informed us that the GOL's interagency import control board approved the application of the Kaunas-based British company Jurby Watertech to import a "MAW 20 MS3" filament winding machine (ref A). [...] |
2005-10-27 13:48:00 | Embassy Vilnius | SECRET | PARM PREL ETTC MK LH |
| 05VILNIUS1155 |
LITHUANIA CONGRATULATES IRAQ FOR CONSTITUTION [...] The GOL, October 27, issued a press release congratulating the Iraqi people on the adoption of their new constitution. Text of statement follows. 2. Begin text. CONGRATULATIONS ON IRAQI CONSTITUTION ADOPTION BY REFERENDUM. Lithuania congratulates Iraqi people on adoption of the first C [...] |
2005-10-27 15:14:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV LH IZ |
| 05VILNIUS1156 |
GOL CONDEMNS IRANIAN PRESIDENT'S REMARKS ABOUT [...] (U) The Baltic News Service agency reported October 27 that an MFA spokesperson made the following statement in response to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's comments regarding Israel. 2. (U) Begin text of statement. Lithuania condemns the exhortations by Iran's President Mahmoud [...] |
2005-10-27 15:26:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL IR IS LH |
| 05VILNIUS1161 |
GOL SUPPORTS USG POLICY ON BELARUS [...] (C) Summary: The GOL is refocusing its efforts to promote democracy in Belarus after fielding criticism from the USG and EU for overstepping the bounds of the agreed non-engagement policy. GOL foreign policy decision-makers admit that the Prime Minister's October 4 meeting with Belarusian PM [...] |
2005-10-29 07:40:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PREL PHUM EAID PGOV BO UP LH |
| 05VILNIUS1166 |
EAC FOR AVIAN INFLUENZA PLANNING [...] Vilnius EAC convened October 25 to discuss preparedness for Avian Flu contingencies and decided to take the following safety measures: A. Post will procure small amounts of Tamiflu for contingencies until Department orders of the same arrive at Post. B. Post will procure hand sanitiz [...] |
2005-11-02 05:39:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | AMED AMGT ASEC LH |
| 05VILNIUS1186 |
CONOCOPHILLIPS SET TO REQUEST USG ADVOCACY ON BID [...] This cable contains confidential proprietary business information. Please handle accordingly. 2. (C) SUMMARY: ConocoPhillips Chairman and CEO James Mulva told the Ambassador October 27 that CP will likely bid with the Russian oil giant Lukoil on a controlling share of Lithuania's Mazeikiu [...] |
2005-11-04 05:36:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ENRG EINV PREL PGOV LH |
| 05VILNIUS1188 |
GOL CONTRIBUTING TO NATO MISSION IN PAKISTAN [...] (U) Summary: The GOL is heeding NATO's call for contributions to its relief effort in Pakistan by sending water purifications specialists and equipment to the affected region under the Alliance's umbrella. This comes on top of the GOL's previous financial (104,000 USD) and material (tents an [...] |
2005-11-04 14:32:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID PHUM PREL PK LH |
| 05VILNIUS1190 |
LITHUANIA'S PM FACES CHALLENGE TO HIS INTEGRITY [...] (C) Allegations that Prime Minister Brazauskas's wife benefited from a sweetheart deal with Russian oil giant Lukoil are prompting new strains in Lithuania's ruling coalition. Coalition leaders reined in an anti-Brazauskas movement November 2, but confrontation is brewing with the opposition [...] |
2005-11-04 14:39:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL LH |
| 05VILNIUS1191 |
LITHUANIA CONSIDERING PROPOSED MESSAGE ON BELARUS [...] (C) We delivered ref A points to Tomas Gulbinas, head of the MFA's Common Foreign and Security Policy Department, November 2. Gulbinas said that he did not have an immediate response to our proposal, but would pass our points to the GOL's EU mission and to the Belarus desk. He commented that [...] |
2005-11-04 14:47:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PREL PGOV BO LH |
| 05VILNIUS1198 |
A SETBACK FOR LITHUANIA'S PM, A BOOST FOR USPASKICH [...] (C) The Parliament narrowly voted November 8 to begin investigation of Prime Minister Brazauskas and his family's business interests, despite ostensible ruling coalition support for defeating the measure. An opposition solidly united behind the Conservatives and the refusal of several coaliti [...] |
2005-11-09 16:13:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL LH |
| 05VILNIUS120 |
LITHUANIA CONGRATULATES IRAQ ON SUCCESSFUL [...] (C) We delivered reftel A points regarding Iraq's elections to Kestutis Jankauskas, Director of the MFA's Security Policy Department on January 31. The GOL did not release any statements before the elections (reftel B), but Jankauskas was preparing a post-election declaration for Foreign Mini [...] |
2005-02-03 10:57:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MOPS LH |
| 05VILNIUS1202 |
VILNIUS UNATTENDED OPERATIONS WAIVER REQUEST [...] (S) Post requests a temporary waiver to begin 24-hour unattended operations for classified communications. Post needs to have all message traffic available at the beginning of the business day in order to operate efficiently in response to Washington taskings. We cannot do that now without i [...] |
2005-11-10 15:09:00 | Embassy Vilnius | SECRET | AADP ABLD AMGT ACOA ASEC KRIM LH |
| 05VILNIUS1203 |
LITHUANIA WILL STICK CLOSE TO DENMARK IN IRAQ [...] No summary [...] |
2005-11-10 15:22:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MOPS PREL IZ DA LH |
| 05VILNIUS1222 |
GOL AGREES TO JEWISH COMMUNAL PROPERTY RESTITUTION [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The GOL's Ministry of Justice and representatives of the Jewish community, with our prodding, have agreed on the substance and text of an amended law authorizing communal property restitution. The law will establish a payment schedule for monetary restitution to the local Jewis [...] |
2005-11-18 15:16:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KNAR SOCI PHUM LH |
| 05VILNIUS1223 |
LITHUANIAN DAILY ATTACKS OPEN SOCIETY FUND, CIVIL SOCIETY [...] (SBU) A weeklong, continuing series of articles in Lithuania's second leading daily "Respublika" has attacked several Western- oriented NGO leaders whose organizations have received funding from George Soros's Open Society Fund (OSF). The attacks impugn the intentions of the NGOs and tar weste [...] |
2005-11-18 15:30:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV ECON KPAO KNAR LH |
| 05VILNIUS1224 |
CONOCOPHILLIPS BACK IN TOWN TO PURSUE INTEREST IN [...] (SBU) ConocoPhillips (CP) President and CEO James Mulva, during a November 18 meeting with Prime Minister Algirdas Brazauskas, reiterated CP's interest in buying the Mazeikiu Nafta (MN) oil refinery in an equal partnership with the Russian oil firm Lukoil. A PM spokeswoman told us that Mulva [...] |
2005-11-18 15:46:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ENRG EINV PGOV PREL LH |
| 05VILNIUS1226 |
CONSULAR PUBLIC OUTREACH ON VISA WAIVER AND ACS [...] SUMMARY: We take the Department's message about the relationship between active public diplomacy and good consular work (ref a) seriously in Vilnius. This post has an active consular public outreach program, with particular emphasis on public diplomacy aspects of Lithuania's Visa Waiver Roadm [...] |
2005-11-21 14:24:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | CMGT CVIS KPAO CASC LH |
| 05VILNIUS1228 |
AIR POLICING DECISION CASTS LONG SHADOW IN [...] (C) Summary: Extending NATO's interim Baltic air policing program or making it permanent is one of the GOL's highest security policy objectives. The GOL will look for continuation of 24/7 Baltic coverage as the optimal outcome of NATO's review of its air policing policy, and for NATO to def [...] |
2005-11-21 14:51:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL LH |
| 05VILNIUS1238 |
PM BRAZAUSKAS RIDING OUT POLITICAL TURBULENCE [...] (SBU) Lithuania's Prime Minister Algirdas Brazauskas quashed a parliamentary inquiry and continues to hold the ruling coalition together amidst investigations into his wife's business dealings. While two law enforcement institutions have launched investigations at President Adamkus's request, [...] |
2005-11-23 11:46:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV LH |
| 05VILNIUS1240 |
GOL SEEKS TO PLAY THE RUSSIAN CARD WITH LUKASHENKO [...] (C) Summary: The GOL believes that a joint USG-EU mission to Belarus to deliver a strong message to the regime is doomed to fail if the Government of Russia does not also participate. The MFA argues that any trip to Minsk by a high-level USG official should include a stop in Moscow aimed at [...] |
2005-11-23 15:28:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV BO RS LH |
| 05VILNIUS1242 |
LITHUANIA'S VISA WAIVER ROADMAP: COOPERATION AND [...] This is an action request--see paragraphs 5 and 6. 2. Post has held more than a dozen informal meetings on Visa Waiver Roadmap (VWR) issues since the last two formal Consular Working Group meetings in July (refs C and D). Post and the MFA have also made significant progress on joint VWR pub [...] |
2005-11-25 13:40:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | CMGT CVIS KFRD CASC LH |
| 05VILNIUS1243 |
LITHUANIA WILLING TO RAISE NGO LAW WITH RUSSIA [...] (C) We delivered reftel points regarding Russia's proposed new NGO law to Arunas Vinciunas, head of the MFA's Russia Division, on November 25. Vinciunas told us that the GOL shares our concerns regarding potential constraints on NGO activities. He noted that the GOL Ambassador in Moscow rece [...] |
2005-11-25 13:52:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PINR PREL RS LH |
| 05VILNIUS1244 |
DUTCH COURT FREES SHARES OF LITHUANIAN OIL [...] (C) SUMMARY: A Dutch court lifted restrictions November 24 on Yukos-owned shares of Lithuania's Mazeikiu Nafta oil refinery (MN). The decision appears to allow Yukos to proceed with the sale of its majority stake in MN. The larger legal battle over Yukos's holdings continues, however, and a [...] |
2005-11-25 14:30:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ENRG EINV PGOV PREL LH |
| 05VILNIUS1265 |
ANTI-TIP INITIATIVES IN LITHUANIA [...] Lithuanian law enforcement recently broke up two cross-border trafficking groups and announced the creation of a new department to increase international cooperation. Partly as a result of such increasingly frequent busts, media attention to TIP issues is growing. GOL representatives, NGOs, [...] |
2005-12-01 15:38:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM KCRM KWMN ELAB PREF LH |
| 05VILNIUS1266 |
LITHUANIA INTERESTED IN USG-RUSSIA DIALOG [...] (C) We conveyed ref A points regarding the December 2 USG-GOR bilateral to Arunas Vinciunas, head of the MFA's Russia Division, December 1. Vinciunas agreed that additional dialogue and confidence-building would be useful. He was particularly interested in learning whether the USG expected to [...] |
2005-12-02 08:21:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV RS LH |
| 05VILNIUS1271 |
LITHUANIAN PROSECUTOR AGAIN CHALLENGES EDITOR'S [...] (U) Lithuania's Prosecutor General has filed a final appeal of the court order to dismiss the case against the newspaper owner and editor Vitas Tomkus for distributing allegedly anti-Semitic and anti-homosexual articles two years ago. The new appeal argues that the court erred by considering [...] |
2005-12-02 15:43:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PHUM SOCI LH |
| 05VILNIUS1272 |
LITHUANIA'S WORK AND TRAVEL PROGRAM [...] Summary. Lithuania's Summer Work and Travel Program (SWT), one of the largest programs per capita in the world, sends 2,000 university students to more than 30 states each year. Concentrated primarily in service-oriented positions in tourist areas along the East Coast and Great Lakes, Lithu [...] |
2005-12-05 06:15:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | CVIS CMGT CPAS PGOV LH |
| 05VILNIUS1275 |
PRELIMINARY RESULTS FROM B1/B2 VISA VALIDATION [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: We have completed work on the first three months of a year-long, B1/B2 validation study. Two percent of our randomly selected applicants during this period did not return, while another one percent remain as suspected yet unconfirmed overstays. While this preliminary data does [...] |
2005-12-05 11:30:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CVIS KFRD LH |
| 05VILNIUS1277 |
GOL DEFENSE SPENDING ON THE RISE [...] (SBU) Summary: Lithuania is set to achieve a 15 percent increase in its defense budget in 2006 in absolute terms. The key benchmark of military spending as a percentage of GDP will rise from 1.27 in 2005 to 1.32. Defense officials and key members of parliament are aware that sustained increas [...] |
2005-12-05 14:56:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINS LH |
| 05VILNIUS1278 |
TWO U.S. AIRMEN FROM NATO MISSION DETAINED [...] (C) SUMMARY: Lithuanian police detained two U.S. servicemen following a dispute at a local Vilnius club on November 26. A Lithuanian and Somali citizen claim they were assaulted by the American parties, who deny the allegations and claim mistreatment themselves. The Lithuanian authorities ar [...] |
2005-12-05 15:28:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR MOPS LH |
| 05VILNIUS1284 |
LITHUANIA HAS NO AI-RELATED IMPORT RESTRICTIONS ON [...] The Lithuanian State Food and Veterinary Service (SFVS) told us that Lithuania has no AI-related ban on the import of U.S. poultry products. Lithuania does, however, maintain a ban on imports of U.S. poultry due to an ongoing dispute between the United States and EU over anti-microbial treatm [...] |
2005-12-08 09:20:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD EAGR LH |
| 05VILNIUS1287 |
AMBASSADOR COUNTERS ATTACKS ON LITHUANIA'S NGO [...] (C) Respublika Group media outlets and Lithuanian politicians continue to attack legitimate non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in a seemingly coordinated campaign that began November 8 (reftel). Ambassador Mull, responding publicly to an inquiry from the Labor Party, defended USG support f [...] |
2005-12-08 13:53:00 | Embassy Vilnius | SECRET | PGOV ECON KPAO KNAR LH |
| 05VILNIUS1288 |
LITHUANIA: 2005 INSCR NARCOTICS AND CHEMICAL [...] No summary [...] |
2005-12-09 11:37:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR PREL LH |
| 05VILNIUS1291 |
LITHUANIA'S DEFENSE BUDGET FALLS SHORT OF [...] (U) Lithuania's parliament approved a defense budget for 2006 on December 8 that falls short of the Lithuanian armed forces' hopes -- and of the GOL's commitment to NATO. Despite an 11 percent increase in absolute terms over last year's appropriation, defense spending will remain at 1.27 perc [...] |
2005-12-09 16:19:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINS LH |
| 05VILNIUS1292 |
LITHUANIA: 2005 COUNTRY REPORTS ON TERRORISM [...] General assessment: No acts of international terrorism of major significance occurred in Lithuania during 2005. Lithuania is not designated as a state sponsor of terrorism, and has not otherwise been determined by the Secretary of State to be subject to the Country Reports on Terrorism. 2. [...] |
2005-12-12 06:31:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC LH PTER |
| 05VILNIUS13 |
LITHUANIA REAFFIRMS INTEREST IN AFGHANISTAN PRT [...] (C) Summary. Lithuania is seriously considering leading a Provincial Reconstruction Team mission in Afghanistan. The MFA will brief the Foreign Minister and Defense Minister on the issue on January 6. Following the return of a GOL fact-finding team from Kabul and Mazar-i-Sharif on January 1 [...] |
2005-01-05 14:32:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS MARR MCAP PGOV PREL LH |
| 05VILNIUS1304 |
LITHUANIA TO DISCUSS FOREIGN DEPLOYMENTS [...] (C) Summary. Parliamentary Speaker Arturas Paulauskas called on Lithuania's National Defense Council December 12 to develop a long-term strategy for involvement in Iraq and other foreign military missions. Government officials recognize the unfortunate timing of Paulauskas's proposal, coming [...] |
2005-12-14 13:30:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MOPS PREL IZ LH |
| 05VILNIUS1305 |
NGO CONCERNS -- NOT JUST IN RUSSIA [...] (SBU) We delivered reftel points regarding Russia's proposed new NGO law to Arunas Vinciunas, head of the MFA's Russia desk on December 13. He told us that the GOL continues to share our concerns regarding potential constraints on NGO activities. According to Vinciunas, however, the Nordic a [...] |
2005-12-14 15:58:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL RS LH |
| 05VILNIUS1312 |
FIRST LITHUANIAN EXTRADITED TO THE UNITED STATES [...] On December 8, 2005, Anjei Iantsevitch became the first Lithuanian extradited to the United States. He was arrested in on November 8 2005 at his home in Vilnius. 2. Iantsevitch is the subject of a criminal indictment of the Northern District of New York on counterfeit securities charges. [...] |
2005-12-15 16:23:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC CJAN KCRM LH |
| 05VILNIUS1323 |
LITHUANIA UNFAZED BY U.S. DRAWDOWN; PLANS TO SEND [...] (SBU) We delivered ref A and B points regarding the upcoming January Afghanistan Compact in London and the proposed troop drawdown in Afghanistan to Vytautas Leskevicius, head of the MFA's NATO division, on December 21. We also delivered ref B points December 20 to Alvydas Kunigelis, Acting D [...] |
2005-12-21 15:11:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL MOPS PGOV EAID AF LH |
| 05VILNIUS1328 |
LITHUANIA: REINVIGORATING PD CULTURAL AND SPORTS [...] No summary [...] |
2005-12-22 15:03:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO OEXC SCUL LH |
| 05VILNIUS1341 |
TERRORIST FINANCE: LITHUANIA RECEIVES LET [...] No summary [...] |
2005-12-23 12:25:00 | Embassy Vilnius | SECRET | KTFN EFIN ETTC PK PREL PTER LH |
| 05VILNIUS1345 |
COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR CODEL SENSENBRENNER [...] Post warmly welcomes CODEL Sensenbrenner and is pleased to grant country clearance for the period of January 10-12, 2006 for the purpose of high-level discussions regarding visa policy in Lithuania. 2. Ambassador Mull will greet the CODEL on its arrival at the airport. The Embassy's poin [...] |
2005-12-28 14:51:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA AMGT OREP ASEC AFIN FR NL PL RS LH |
| 05VILNIUS1346 |
GOL REQUESTS USG INPUT ON HELICOPTER TRAINING FOR [...] (U) This is a short-fuse action request; see para 6. We need input from Washington by OOB January 5. 2. (C) Summary: The GOL is currently considering approval of a contract for a Lithuanian firm to broker a deal for its Russian partner to provide training to Iranian helicopter pilots. T [...] |
2005-12-29 14:57:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL ETTC MCAP IR RS LH |
| 05VILNIUS1347 |
Avian Influenza: Lithuania tripwires and contingency [...] Embassy Vilnius has reviewed the preparedness steps and tripwire guidance in ref A. As requested, we have developed our own readiness measures against avian influenza, including tripwires for possible drawdown requests and shelter-in-place plans. 2. Per paragraph 6 of ref A, Post has atte [...] |
2005-12-30 06:33:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | AMGT ASEC CASC AMED AEMR LH |
| 05VILNIUS1352 |
NO SIGNS OF PROLIFERATION RISKS ASSOCIATED WITH [...] (S) SUMMARY: We discussed Achema's purchase of the fertilizer production equipment described in reftels with company representatives, and are reassured by what they told us. Achema plans to relocate 90-95 percent of the purchased equipment from Cyprus to its production facility in Lithuania [...] |
2005-12-30 14:03:00 | Embassy Vilnius | SECRET | ETTC LH MARR MCAP PREL LT IR CY |
| 05VILNIUS1354 |
GOL READJUSTING IN IRAQ BASED ON SAME RATIONALE AS [...] (C) We delivered ref A points on USG troop readjustments in Iraq to Ministry of Defense Undersecretary Renatas Norkus on December 28 and Vytautas Leskevicius, of the MFA's Security Policy Department, on December 29. Both officials said that the GOL's decision not to replace the detachment of [...] |
2005-12-30 14:50:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS PREL MARR MOPS IZ PL LH |
| 05VILNIUS138 |
Minister of Environment Setting New Priorities in [...] (SBU) Ambassador Mull met with Minister of Environment Arunas Kundrotas on February 8 as part of his tour of the GoL's new cabinet (refs A and previous). The Ambassador recalled the extensive bilateral environmental protection cooperation that has taken place, noted ongoing cooperation in are [...] |
2005-02-10 11:40:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV PGOV ECON EPET TBIO TSPL LH RS |
| 05VILNIUS139 |
A/S HARTY'S MEETING WITH GOL CONSULAR OFFICIALS [...] (U) Summary: Assistant Secretary for Consular Affairs Maura Harty met with Lithuanian Vice Foreign Minister Zenonas Petrauskas and Consular Department Director Vaidotas Verba on February 2, 2005. The MFA demonstrated its plans for biometric identity documents and suggested a potential soluti [...] |
2005-02-10 11:48:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV CASC PREL CVIS CMGT ASEC LH |
| 05VILNIUS144 |
LITHUANIA'S FINANCE MINISTER OUTLINES GOL ECONOMIC [...] (SBU) Summary. Finance Minister Algirdas Butkevicius, meeting with Ambassador Mull on February 9, delivered an optimistic prognosis for Lithuania's continued strong economic growth. While stressing that some politically difficult questions still lie ahead, Butkevicius discussed several areas [...] |
2005-02-11 14:17:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | AFIN ECON EFIN LH PGOV PREL |
| 05VILNIUS152 |
LITHUANIA TO REITERATE CALL FOR NATO FLEXIBILITY [...] (C) Summary. Lithuania, probably through President Valdas Adamkus, will utilize the February 22 NATO-Ukraine Council Summit to reiterate its call for NATO to respond positively to the new political reality in Ukraine, to elevate the NATO-Ukraine partnership to a new level, and to urge the All [...] |
2005-02-15 16:17:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV LH |
| 05VILNIUS153 |
FRENCH FM IN VILNIUS: OPTIMISTIC FOR IMPROVED [...] (C) SUMMARY: French Foreign Minister Michel Barnier, in Vilnius for consultations with Lithuania's political leadership two days after his meeting in Paris with Secretary Rice, spoke warmly of the Secretary's visit to Europe and publicly expressed optimism about the future of transatlantic rel [...] |
2005-02-15 16:32:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV FR LH |
| 05VILNIUS155 |
SPECIAL ENVOY FOR HOLOCAUST ISSUES VISITS [...] Summary. Ambassador Edward O'Donnell, Special Envoy for Holocaust Issues, discussed property restitution, Holocaust education, and anti-Semitism with GOL officials and Jewish community leaders during a January 31-February 2 visit to Vilnius. Ambassador O'Donnell commended the level of Holoca [...] |
2005-02-17 09:17:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KNAR SOCI PHUM OVIP LH |
| 05VILNIUS162 |
VISA WAIVER PROGRAM: LITHUANIA PREFERS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On February 17, Charge discussed with MFA representatives Lithuania's progress in conforming to Visa Waiver Program (VWP) regulations as part of a "roadmap" initiative (ref A). He cautioned that accession to VWP would likely not occur in the immediate future. GOL representativ [...] |
2005-02-22 09:38:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CVIS PREL LH |
| 05VILNIUS165 |
LITHUANIA: YEAR 2005 SPECIAL 301 REVIEW [...] Lithuania is making progress against intellectual property rights (IPR), but it should remain on the Watch List for 2005 due to persistent weaknesses in its enforcement system. A local industry association estimates that the rate of piracy for recorded music, films, and games dropped to 40 p [...] |
2005-02-22 12:23:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON KIPR ETRD LH |
| 05VILNIUS174 |
LITHUANIA-RUSSIA COMMISSION DISCUSS TARIFFS, DEBT, [...] No summary [...] |
2005-02-23 14:55:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV LH |
| 05VILNIUS175 |
LITHUANIA TO HOST MARCH EU MEETING ON BELARUS [...] (U) Mindaugas Kacerauskas, head of MFA's Belarus, Ukraine and Moldova Division told us February 22 that Lithuania will host the March 17-18 EU Commission meeting on Belarus. The event sponsors, Lithuania's MFA and the EU Commission's Directorate of External Relations, plan to bring together g [...] |
2005-02-24 06:04:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV LH |
| 05VILNIUS18 |
LITHUANIA TO ATTEND UNOCHA TSUNAMI DONOR CONFERENCE [...] No summary [...] |
2005-01-07 08:43:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | AEMR EAID PGOV LH |
| 05VILNIUS182 |
LITHUANIA 2005 ANNUAL TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS (TIP) [...] (SBU) Summary: Lithuania is a country of origin, transit, and destination for international trafficking in women. Although the exact extent and magnitude of trafficking in persons (TIP) in Lithuania is unknown, Europol estimates that over 1,200 Lithuanian women are victims of human trafficki [...] |
2005-02-25 13:47:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM KCRM KWMN ELAB SMIG ASEC KFRD PREF LH |
| 05VILNIUS198 |
LITHUANIA SOLICITING SUPPORT FOR CHAGCHARAN PRT [...] (C) Summary. Kestutis Jankauskas, Director of the MFA's Security Policy Department, on February 25 outlined the status of Lithuania's planning for the Lithuania-led provincial reconstruction team (PRT) in Chagcharan, Afghanistan, and GOL efforts to solicit support for the mission from NATO al [...] |
2005-03-01 12:57:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS MCAP PREL PGOV LH |
| 05VILNIUS200 |
LITHUANIAN MINISTER USPASKICH'S VISIT SCENESETTER [...] (C) Your meeting with the Baltic Ministers of Economy will provide an opportunity to underscore to Lithuania's Minister Victor Uspaskich the need to do more to attract U.S. direct investment. Uspaskich, who came to office in December 2004, has publicly recognized that increasing foreign invest [...] |
2005-03-01 13:52:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON EFIN LH |
| 05VILNIUS240 |
LITHUANIA WELCOMES U.S. OFFICER ASSIGNMENTS TO PRT [...] This cable contains an action request in para 3. 2. DCM informed MFA Undersecretary Dalius Cekuolis March 8, per reftel, of the USG plan to assign a State Department Officer (retired FSO Michael Metrinko) and a USAID officer to the Lithuanian-led Provincial Reconstruction Team in Chagcharan [...] |
2005-03-09 15:09:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL MOPS AF LH |
| 05VILNIUS252 |
SCENESETTER FOR MINISTER OF DEFENSE GEDIMINAS [...] (C) Mr. Secretary, Lithuanian Defense Minister Kirkilas comes to Washington March 14 eager to demonstrate that, despite inexperience in defense policy, he is a capable and committed friend to the U.S. His performance in less than three months on the job has been impressively favorable to our [...] |
2005-03-10 15:23:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR PINR LH |
| 05VILNIUS253 |
Lithuania Needs Night Vision Devices [...] I would like to appeal for your assistance in taking a look at a policy that is effectively denying one of our staunchest allies in Iraq and Afghanistan the ability to fully realize its potential in supporting our interests. Lithuania has been seeking for several months the transfer of Night [...] |
2005-03-10 15:52:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS MARR MOPS PREL LH |
| 05VILNIUS257 |
LITHUANIA'S PRT IN CHAGCHARAN: FILLING THE RANKS [...] (C) This cable contains an action request. Please see paragraph 6. 2. (C) Summary. Kestutis Jankauskas, Director of the MFA's Security Policy Department, said the GOL will ask Parliament to double the number of troops deployable to Afghanistan. Jankuaskas provided an update of pledges of [...] |
2005-03-15 07:33:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS MCAP PREL PGOV LH AF |
| 05VILNIUS266 |
LITHUANIA TO REVIEW DRAFT RESOLUTION ON BELARUS [...] No summary [...] |
2005-03-16 06:04:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | BO LH |
| 05VILNIUS276 |
VISA WAIVER PROGRAM: LITHUANIA ACCEPTS ROADMAP, [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The GOL, initially hesitant to pursue a formal agreement, is now anxious to accept the VWP roadmap following the model of other countries in the region. MFA officials remain very interested in arranging U.S. consultations, to examine both biometric security and "customer servic [...] |
2005-03-16 14:28:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CVIS PREL LH |
| 05VILNIUS28 |
LITHUANIA INCSR (INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL [...] Money laundering is not a significant problem in Lithuania. Strict legal and regulatory controls and the GOL's cooperation with international regulatory counterparts explain the government's success. The Lithuanian government increased controls to prevent financial crimes and money launderi [...] |
2005-01-10 14:39:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR EFIN KCRM PTER KTFN LH |
| 05VILNIUS283 |
RABBI BAKER PRESSES FOR RESTITUTION RESULTS [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Lithuanian Government and political leaders reaffirmed their commitment to restitution of Jewish communal property during a series of meetings with visiting American Jewish Committee official Rabbi Andrew Baker March 7-8. Paving the way for Baker's visit, the local Jewish com [...] |
2005-03-17 13:50:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KNAR SOCI PHUM OVIP LH |
| 05VILNIUS289 |
AMBASSADOR VISITS LITHUANIA'S REACTOR, DISCUSSES [...] Ambassador Mull made a day-long tour of northeastern Lithuania on March 16. During his visit, he heard concerns from local mayors about the lack of local employment opportunities to absorb the large (3,500) Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant (INPP) reactor workforce once the only remaining functi [...] |
2005-03-18 14:31:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | ENRG PGOV PREL LH |
| 05VILNIUS3 |
LITHUANIA 2005 INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT [...] To maintain its high rate of growth, Lithuania needs more foreign investment. The government affords foreign investors equal protection to domestic investors, and sets few limitations on their activities. Foreign investors have the right to repatriate or reinvest profits without restriction [...] |
2005-01-03 14:24:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV KIDE ECON KTDB LH |
| 05VILNIUS300 |
LITHUANIA OIL STILL FLOWING, BUT MANY FINGERS [...] (C) Mazeikiu Nafta General Director Nelson English and Vice Minister of Economy Nerijus Eidukevicius told us they are optimistic that Russian crude will continue to flow through the Transneft pipeline to Lithuania's Mazeikiu Nafta refinery through the end of the year, despite press reports to [...] |
2005-03-22 12:28:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON ENRG LH RS |
| 05VILNIUS306 |
MINISTER OF SOCIAL SECURITY AND LABOR LAYS OUT VISION FOR [...] SUMMARY: On March 21, Ambassador Mull met with Vilija Blinkeviciute, the Minster of Social Security and Labor, as part of his ongoing series of discussions with cabinet members of the new GOL (ref a). Ms. Blinkeviciute, a member of the Social Liberal party who came in fourth in the first rou [...] |
2005-03-23 08:14:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ELAB EINV PGOV PHUM LH |
| 05VILNIUS313 |
Government of Lithuania request to purchase Dual [...] Summary: The GOL requested an amendment to an existing contract for the Stinger missile system on 23 March 2005 in order to enhance NATO interoperability and realize a long- term cost savings over the life of the modified contract. Lithuania is requesting the purchase of eight Dual Mounted [...] |
2005-03-23 14:31:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL MCAP MASS LH |
| 05VILNIUS317 |
LITHUANIAN STAKEHOLDERS TARGET STANDARDS AND [...] Lithuanians identified differing standards and regulations as the greatest impediments to transatlantic trade in two recent Embassy-sponsored stakeholders' roundtables. The Lithuanian Free Market Institute, reporting on the events, encouraged elimination of U.S.-EU tariff barriers and mutual [...] |
2005-03-24 14:53:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD EINV PREL ECON BEXP KPAO LH |
| 05VILNIUS326 |
RUSSIAN ENVOY'S SHARPE TONGUE AND THREATS TO CUT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Russia's envoy to Lithuania has provoked high-level outrage and calls for his expulsion with sharp-tongued criticism of Lithuanians and thinly veiled threats to interrupt the country's energy supplies. Most local analysts believe the Russian's sudden high-profile gibes - after 1 [...] |
2005-03-25 16:03:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREF LH RS |
| 05VILNIUS350 |
LITHUANIA: NO ISAF CAVEATS, BUT WOULD CONSIDER ONE [...] (U) This cable contains a request for information. Please see paragraph 3. 2. (C) We delivered reftel points April 4 on ISAF caveats to Bartas Trakymas, Acting Head of the MOD's International Organizations Division, and to Gediminas Varvuolis, Head of the MFA NATO Division. Trakymas concu [...] |
2005-04-06 06:40:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR LH AF DA |
| 05VILNIUS358 |
LITHUANIAN-LED PRT: TAKING SHAPE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Foreign Affairs and Defense Ministry officials told State POLAD designee to the Lithuania-led PRT Michael Metrinko March 30 - April 1 that Lithuania is moving forward with plans to lead a multinational provincial reconstruction team in Chaghcharan, Afghanistan. The Lithuanians, s [...] |
2005-04-06 14:28:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS MCAP PREL PGOV LH AF |
| 05VILNIUS367 |
LITHUANIA PROVIDES UPDATED REQUIREMENT LITH FOR [...] (U) SUMMARY: The GOL updated and augmented its needs assessment for the Lithuanian-led Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) in the desolate Ghowr province of western Afghanistan. Following the March 30 return from Afghanistan of Lithuania's PRT reconnaissance team, the MFA advanced us a copy [...] |
2005-04-07 12:59:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS MCAP MARR PREL PGOV LH AF |
| 05VILNIUS372 |
GLOBAL WAR ON TERRORISM ASSESSMENT: LITHUANIA [...] (S) Lithuania has a low terrorism threat, and we are working hard with Lithuanian security agencies to keep it that way. There are no known terrorist operational cells, logistical cells, or support organizations in Lithuania. There are no known incidents of terrorism financing or terrorism-re [...] |
2005-04-08 14:19:00 | Embassy Vilnius | SECRET | PREL PTER ASEC LH |
| 05VILNIUS376 |
U.S.-BALTIC SUMMIT: CALMING TROUBLED WATERS [...] (C) President Bush's meeting with the three Baltic presidents in Riga May 7 presents an extraordinary opportunity to tighten our alliance with America's best friends in Europe and patch their fraying unity in advancing U.S. interests. At the summit, we should aim to: --Acknowledge the thre [...] |
2005-04-11 10:54:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL OVIP EN RS LG LH |
| 05VILNIUS380 |
YUKOS LOSING ITS GRIP ON LITHUANIAN OIL REFINERY [...] (C) Russian oil giant Yukos is losing hold of its controlling interest in Lithuania's Mazeikiu Nafta oil refinery, as the company can no longer guarantee oil flows to Lithuania. The GOL has entered into negotiations with London-based Yukos management regarding control of the refinery. Russia [...] |
2005-04-11 14:36:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EPET ECON ENRG LH RS |
| 05VILNIUS395 |
YOUR VILNIUS VISIT: REWARDING THE LOYAL AND [...] (C) Your bilateral program in Vilnius during the NATO Ministerial will score important advances in keeping this loyal ally in Iraq and Afghanistan, highlight our joint efforts for a democratic Belarus, and set the stage for a successful U.S.-Baltic summit in Riga next month. It will also hel [...] |
2005-04-13 14:49:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL OVIP LH |
| 05VILNIUS410 |
PROPOSED VISA WAIVER PROGRAM ROADMAP FOR [...] After consulting with Vaidotas Verba, Director of the MFA's Consular Department, we wish to propose the following draft visa waiver program roadmap, which is based on the roadmap the USG announced last February with Poland. We request urgent approval of this proposed roadmap so that it may b [...] |
2005-04-15 10:29:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | CVIS PGOV OVIP LH |
| 05VILNIUS417 |
LITHUANIAN PRT FORCE DEVELOPMENT MEETING: WHERE [...] (C) Summary. Dainius Baublys, the MFA's designated POLAD for the Lithuanian-led Chaghcharan provincial reconstruction team, April 13 expressed dismay at the lack of partner commitments to support the PRT. Baublys said that only few made firm pledges of support and only Iceland's met the GOL's [...] |
2005-04-19 11:56:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS MCAP MARR PREL PGOV LH AF |
| 05VILNIUS429 |
Government of Lithuania request Requests for [...] Summary: The GOL recently provided us with a formal request requested that the USG provide Generation III Night Vision Devices (NVDs) for their its troops deploying in support of a Provincial Reconstruction Tteam in Afghanistan and SOF troops preparing to support NATO NATO Reaction Forces -5 [...] |
2005-04-25 09:42:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS MARR PREL LH |
| 05VILNIUS447 |
SCENESETTER FOR CODEL KINGSTON [...] Your visit to Lithuania will provide an opportunity to thank Lithuania for its staunch and unwavering support in the U.S.-led Global War on Terror, including its recent decision to establish and lead a Provincial Reconstruction Team in Chaghcharan, Afghanistan, and to commend its leadership in [...] |
2005-04-29 05:20:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV OVIP LH |
| 05VILNIUS453 |
LITHUANIA: ADVANCE NOTICE OF IPR WATCH LISTING [...] No summary [...] |
2005-05-02 13:21:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD LH |
| 05VILNIUS478 |
LITHUANIA REJECTS UKRAINIAN MONEY LAUNDERING [...] The GOL dismissed recent allegations by Ukranian Minister of Interior Yuri Lutsenko that Lithuanian banks laundered USD 130 million to support the losing presidential campaign of Viktor Yanukovich. The Ukrainian Embassy confirmed that there is no evidence to support the charges. Lithuanian b [...] |
2005-05-09 10:54:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR EFIN KCRM PTER KTFN LH |
| 05VILNIUS490 |
LITHUANIA SUPPORTS INCREASED VISIBILITY OVER PRT [...] (C) We delivered reftel points regarding the U.S. proposal to increase visibility over the civilian element of ISAF's Provincial Reconstruction Teams (PRTs) on May 6 to Gediminas Varvuolis, Head of the MFA's NATO Division, Alvydas Kunigelis, Acting Director of the MOD's Department of Internat [...] |
2005-05-11 09:34:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR AF LH |
| 05VILNIUS498 |
LITHUANIAN RESPONSE TO NIGHT VISION DEVICES ROADMAP [...] No summary [...] |
2005-05-12 14:51:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | MASS ETTC MARR PREL LH |
| 05VILNIUS5 |
Lithuania's Acquisition of Night Vision Devices: [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see para 8. ------- Summary ------- 2. A U.S. vendor of advanced Night Vision Devices (NVDs) recently advised the Lithuanian government that its acquisition contravenes de facto USG policy. The apparent policy to deny new NATO members these devic [...] |
2005-01-04 06:52:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS MARR PREL LH |
| 05VILNIUS500 |
CODEL KINGSTON DISCUSSES TERRORISM, DEMOCRACY AND [...] Summary. A Congressional delegation led by Representative Jack Kingston visited Lithuania May 8-10 to thank President Adamkus and Parliamentary Speaker Paulauskas for Lithuania's support in the Global War on Terrorism and for its democratic initiatives in Ukraine and Belarus. Lithuanian inte [...] |
2005-05-13 13:17:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV OVIP LH |
| 05VILNIUS503 |
LITHUANIA WANTS AND DESERVES FLEXIBLE COALITION [...] (C) Summary. As they gear up to lead a Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) in Afghanistan, Lithuanian authorities were delighted by the recent approval in Washington of coalition solidarity funding. At the same time, in anticipation of receiving a share of these funds in recognition of thei [...] |
2005-05-13 14:12:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS MCAP PREL PGOV LH |
| 05VILNIUS504 |
ECONOMY MINISTER USPASKICH UNDER FIRE BY THE [...] (U) SUMMARY. Victor Uspaskich, Economy Minister and leader of the upstart Labor Party, landed in hot water this week. He stands accused of two ethics violations - for using an official trip to Moscow in March to advance his personal business interests, and for excess EU funds received by his b [...] |
2005-05-13 14:43:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL LH |
| 05VILNIUS519 |
Weapons Discovered Near Lithuanian Refugee Reception Center Housing Chechens [...] (U) Classified By RSO Brent A. Barker. Reason 1.5 (D). 2. (S) Summary. The Lithuanian Police recently disclosed to us that they discovered a significant cache of weapons last June near a Refugee Center outside of Kaunas. The weapons included Russian Flame Rocket Launchers, assault rifles [...] |
2005-05-18 13:29:00 | Embassy Vilnius | SECRET | LH NOTAG |
| 05VILNIUS52 |
KGB SKELETONS HAUNT LITHUANIAN FM, SECURITY CHIEF [...] (C) SUMMARY: Lithuania's Foreign Minister and the Director of the State Security Department are under public scrutiny for their alleged Soviet-era service in the KGB reserves. Immediately after the media broke the story January 7, Foreign Minister Antanas Valionis acknowledged his enrollment [...] |
2005-01-18 10:47:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL LH |
| 05VILNIUS527 |
LITHUANIAN DEFENSE COUNCIL APPROVES INCREASING [...] Foreign Minister Antanas Valionis told the Ambassador May 19 that he expects speedy passage through parliament of legislation increasing the number of troops the Lithuanian military may deploy to participate in international operations. The Lithuanian State Defense Council, an inter-ministeri [...] |
2005-05-19 15:12:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | MOPS MARR PREL PGOV LH AF |
| 05VILNIUS528 |
LITHUANIA'S ECONOMY: WHY 2004 WAS SUCH A GOOD [...] Final 2004 figures confirm that Lithuania's economy remains on a roll. High growth, low inflation, and expanding foreign investment still characterize the economy. Surging domestic consumption fed Lithuania's growth, but also contributed to a growing current account deficit and upward pressur [...] |
2005-05-23 05:10:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EINV ETRD LH |
| 05VILNIUS530 |
LITHUANIA'S MFA WARY OF PROPOSED ARMS SALE TO NEPAL [...] This is a short-fuse action request; see para 6. We need input from Washington and Katmandu by OOB May 24. 2. (C) SUMMARY: Kestutis Jankauskas, Director of the MFA'a Security Policy Department, notified us on May 18 of an application of a Lithuanian company for a license to export ammuni [...] |
2005-05-23 09:24:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | MCAP KSTC PARM PGOV PTER PINR LH NP |
| 05VILNIUS560 |
LITHUANIA'S ESDP CONTRIBUTION NO THREAT TO NATO [...] GOL Defense Minister Gediminas Kirkilas and representatives of Germany, Latvia, Poland, and Slovakia on May 23 signed a declaration in Brussels to create a joint battle group to serve in the EU Rapid Reaction Force. Kirkilas announced that the joint force will assume its first rotation in 201 [...] |
2005-05-31 06:17:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV MOPS MARR LH |
| 05VILNIUS562 |
COURT FINES EDITOR FOR DISSEMINATING ANTISEMITIC [...] (U) A Vilnius administrative court fined Rimvydas Valentukevicius, editor of the Russian-language edition of the "Respublika" newspaper, 1,000 litas ($360) on May 25 for publishing a series of anti-Semitic editorials in 2004. The court held that, by publishing the editorials claiming that Jew [...] |
2005-05-31 13:10:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL SOCI LH |
| 05VILNIUS57 |
EMBASSY VILNIUS WORK PLAN FOR NEW GOVERNMENT [...] (C) SUMMARY: We are systematically engaging Lithuania's month-old government, including an Ambassadorial meeting with each Cabinet member, on issues of interest to the United States. Our work plan concentrates on the following critical policy goals: 1) GOL Activism in the Global War on Terr [...] |
2005-01-18 14:49:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MOPS OFDP EINV AMGT LH |
| 05VILNIUS572 |
LITHUANIA SEEKS TO USHER UKRAINE TO BRUSSELS [...] (U) Lithuania is mobilizing a full court press to promote Ukraine's integration into transatlantic and European institutions. Building upon the relationship that President Valdas Adamkus forged by mediating (with Poland's Kwasniewski) Ukraine's post-election crisis, Lithuania's Defense Minis [...] |
2005-06-03 07:57:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL LH UP |
| 05VILNIUS58 |
LITHUANIA'S JUSTICE MINISTER PLEDGES CONTINUITY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Justice Minister Gintautas Buzinskas, meeting with Ambassador Mull on January 14, pledged continuity in his Ministry and U.S.-Lithuanian cooperation on legal issues. Both sides agreed on the need for additional efforts on anti-corruption and counter-terrorism. The Ambassador e [...] |
2005-01-18 15:59:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KCOR KNAR PREL LH |
| 05VILNIUS59 |
LITHUANIA SAYS YES TO PRT [...] (C) The GOL informed the Ambassador on the evening of January 18 that it will accept NATO's request for it to head a provincial reconstruction team (PRT) in western Afghanistan. The decision followed weeks of intensive Mission and USG efforts to get Lithuania on board, culminating in two sepa [...] |
2005-01-18 16:41:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS MARR MCAP PREL PGOV LH |
| 05VILNIUS596 |
GERMAN AND LITHUANIAN AUTHORITIES SCRUTINIZE MONEY [...] (U) CLASSIFIED BY RSO BRENT A. BARKER. REASON 1.5 (D). 2. (C) Summary. The Lithuanian Financial Crime Investigative Service recently disclosed to us that in 2004 it received an informal request from a German government agency regarding a financial transaction used to "purchase equipment in [...] |
2005-06-10 05:04:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | MCAP KSTC PARM PTER PINR EFIN KNNP ASEC IR LH |
| 05VILNIUS599 |
LITHUANIA TO MAKE MODEST TRAINING PLEDGE AT US-EU [...] No summary [...] |
2005-06-10 08:01:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV EAID EIND ECON IZ LH |
| 05VILNIUS609 |
LITHUANIA DEPLOYS PRT TO AFGHANISTAN; WILL NEED [...] (U) SUMMARY: Intensive U.S. airlift operations in support of the Lithuanian-led Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) headed to Chaghcharan, Afghanistan, began from Zokniai airfield June 6. This mission is the most ambitious military undertaking in modern Lithuania's existence, and it enjoys [...] |
2005-06-10 14:03:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS MCAP MARR PREL PGOV LH AF |
| 05VILNIUS627 |
LITHUANIA SEEKS USG ASSISTANCE ON TWO PRT ISSUES [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 6. 2. (U) SUMMARY: The GOL has requested USG assistance in concluding an agreement with the Government of Afghanistan to establish a Lithuanian Special Mission. This agreement is a necessary precondition for the deployment of civilians [...] |
2005-06-15 14:42:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | MOPS MCAP MARR PREF PGOV LH AF HR |
| 05VILNIUS628 |
LITHUANIA: NO INVESTMENT DISPUTES OR [...] No summary [...] |
2005-06-16 09:05:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | CASC EFIN EINV KIDE PGOV LH |
| 05VILNIUS635 |
EAC Convened to Discuss July 4 Event in Vilnius [...] (U) Post convened a meeting of the Emergency Action Committee on June 16, 2005, per reftel. 2. (C) The EAC knows of no specific threat information or concerns with regard to Fourth of July events in Lithuania. RSO is coordinating with the local police, who have promised to provide a suffici [...] |
2005-06-17 11:54:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PTER CASC LH |
| 05VILNIUS636 |
ECONOMY MINISTER RESIGNS OVER ETHICS VIOLATIONS; [...] (C) Lithuania's Minister of Economy Viktor Uspaskich tendered his resignation June 16, following the announcement of a Government Ethics Commission finding that he had violated the laws regarding conflicts of interest. Uspaskich will reportedly relinquish his position in Government and his se [...] |
2005-06-17 13:48:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL LH |
| 05VILNIUS641 |
LITHUANIAN LEADERSHIP ON EU CRISES [...] (C) SUMMARY: President Valdas Adamkus and Foreign Minister Antanas Valionis, who both witnessed the collapse of the EU summit last week, discussed recent events in the EU separately with the Ambassador on the margins of June 20 meetings on Iraq. Adamkus offered an insight into his dealing wi [...] |
2005-06-20 15:23:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAGR LH |
| 05VILNIUS647 |
REQUEST FOR SPEAKER TO DISCUSS ETHICS, EDUCATION [...] PROGRAM OVERVIEW: The Embassy would like to invite Dr. Peter Greer to discuss short- and long-term strategies for the introduction and implementation of ethics education programs at the local and national levels. Dr. Greer would conduct a seminar on the importance of ethics integration into t [...] |
2005-06-21 11:41:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KPAO LH |
| 05VILNIUS648 |
LITHUANIAN MFA OPPOSES ARMS SALE TO NEPAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: Lithuania's MFA will oppose the approval of a license for JSC Manubaltas to export ammunition manufacturing equipment to the Kingdom of Nepal at the GOL's next inter-agency meeting on this issue. The GOL had consulted with the USG on this sale, pursuant to its Wassenaar commitme [...] |
2005-06-21 12:43:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | ETTC PARM LH NP |
| 05VILNIUS65 |
LITHUANIA'S ECONOMY MINISTER SEEKS TO ATTRACT U.S. [...] (C) Summary. Economy Minister and Labor Party Chairman Viktor Uspaskich, meeting with Ambassador Mull on January 18, stressed his commitment to attracting U.S. investment, improve the competitiveness of Lithuanian companies, and to work with the EU to help Lithuania diversify its oil supply a [...] |
2005-01-20 06:47:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON EINV ENRG ECIN LH |
| 05VILNIUS655 |
(C) LITHUANIAN-RUSSIAN RELATIONS BOUNCE BACK, BUT [...] (C) Lithuania's complicated relations with Russia -- after five months of emotional tensions -- are improving again. The May visit of Russian FM Lavrov -- featuring his second meeting with Lithuanian Foreign Minister Valionis in a month -- produced a lengthy declaration promising enhanced coop [...] |
2005-06-22 09:47:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EPET ELTN RS LH |
| 05VILNIUS657 |
LITHUANIA ON BOARD FOR IRAQ IN 2006 [...] (S) SUMMARY: President Valdas Adamkus, Foreign Minister Antanas Valionis, and Defense Minister Gediminas Kirkilas told the Ambassador in separate meetings that they fully expect Lithuania to remain part of the Coalition in Iraq (MNF-I) and Lithuanian personnel to be on the ground in Iraq in 2 [...] |
2005-06-22 14:39:00 | Embassy Vilnius | SECRET | MARR MOPS PREL IZ LH |
| 05VILNIUS662 |
LITHUANIA'S GOVERNING COALITION: "LET'S STAY [...] (C) SUMMARY: Lithuania's ruling coalition shows every indication of surviving the resignation of Minister of Economy Viktor Uspaskich, and Uspaskich's Labor Party shows signs it will emerge from this episode intact. The Prime Minister and President look likely to accept Labor's nominee to re [...] |
2005-06-23 14:09:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL LH |
| 05VILNIUS674 |
SUBJECT: LITHUANIA'S NEW FINANCE MINISTER [...] (C) Summary. Lithuania's new Finance Minister Zigmantas Balcytis told the Ambassador that his principal challenge will be to keep the fiscal deficit and inflation in check so that Lithuania can enter the euro zone as planned in 2007. During the Ambassador's June 23 call on Balcytis, the FinMin [...] |
2005-06-28 13:43:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN PGOV PREL PINR AFIN ECON MARR LH |
| 05VILNIUS676 |
LITHUANIAN OVERSEAS TROOP DEPLOYMENTS AUTHORIZED [...] No summary [...] |
2005-06-28 14:31:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | MARR MOPS PREL IZ AF LH |
| 05VILNIUS683 |
LITHUANIA TIP UPDATE: JANUARY-JUNE 2005 [...] The Government of Lithuania advanced its campaign against trafficking in persons during the first six months of 2005. Joint Lithuanian and British law enforcement efforts resulted in the breakup of a cross-border human trafficking chain that had sent women and girls to the UK. The Government [...] |
2005-06-29 15:14:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM KCRM KWMN ELAB SMIG ASEC KFRD PREF LH |
| 05VILNIUS693 |
LITHUANIA GRATEFUL FOR COALITION SOLIDARITY FUND [...] The Ambassador informed GOL officials on June 30 of the decision to allocate USD 8 million in Coalition Solidarity Funds to Lithuania. In separate conversations, the Ambassador spoke with Minister of Defense Gediminas Kirkilas, Director of the MFA's America, Africa, Asia and Oceania Departme [...] |
2005-07-01 12:47:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS PREL PARM LH |
| 05VILNIUS701 |
PHOTO-SUBBED NEW LITHUANIAN PASSPORTS: A SPOT [...] Summary: The Consular Department of the Lithuanian Foreign Ministry recently informed us that its Embassy in London has been receiving large numbers of successfully photo-substituted new Lithuanian passports. According to the MFA, the photo-substitutions are extremely good and can only be de [...] |
2005-07-07 06:42:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | KFRD CVIS LH |
| 05VILNIUS704 |
GOL PROVIDES COALITION SOLIDARITY FUND WISH LIST [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The GOL provided us on July 5 an updated list of equipment it hopes to purchase with the USD $8 million in Coalition Solidarity Funds that Congress allocated to Lithuania. The GOL plans to use the money to bolster its force leading the Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) in A [...] |
2005-07-07 13:57:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MASS PREL PARM LH |
| 05VILNIUS706 |
LITHUANIAN COURT FINES EDITOR FOR ANTI-SEMITIC [...] (U) Vilnius Administrative Judge Audrius Cininas fined Vitas Tomkus, editor-in-chief and sole owner of Lithuania's second largest daily, "Respublika," 3,000 LTL (US$1,035) on July 7 for inciting anti-Semitism in a series of editorials in 2004. The court held that, by publishing editorials cla [...] |
2005-07-07 14:14:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL SOCI LH |
| 05VILNIUS711 |
LONDON BOMBINGS: VILNIUS EMERGENCY ACTION MEETING [...] CDA chaired a meeting of the core EAC at OOB July 8 to review the Mission's security posture in the wake of the terrorist attacks in London. RSO, DIA, ORA, MGT, CONS, POL, and PAS attended. The EAC noted that that a group claiming responsibility for the bombings had indicated its intent to t [...] |
2005-07-08 11:48:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | AMGT ASEC CASC PTER LH |
| 05VILNIUS714 |
VISA WAIVER PROGRAM: INAUGURAL MEETING OF CONSULAR [...] SUMMARY: Embassy and MFA officials discussed next steps to accomplish the items listed in Lithuania's roadmap for the Visa Waiver Program (VWP) at the inaugural meeting of the Consular Working Group (CWG). We discussed Lithuanian progress on meeting the requirements for sharing lost/stolen pas [...] |
2005-07-08 14:37:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CVIS PREL KPAO LH |
| 05VILNIUS718 |
VISA WAIVER PROGRAM: INAUGURAL MEETING OF CONSULAR [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Embassy and MFA officials discussed next steps to accomplish the items listed in Lithuania's roadmap for the Visa Waiver Program (VWP) at the inaugural meeting of the Consular Working Group (CWG). We discussed Lithuanian progress on meeting the requirements for sharing lost/sto [...] |
2005-07-11 10:40:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CVIS PREL KPAO LH |
| 05VILNIUS721 |
QUARTERLY STATUS REPORT, JANUARY - MARCH 2005 [...] (U) SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT EVENTS A. (U) NARRATIVE OF ACTIVITIES DEA Regional Basic Narcotics Officers School (March 30 - April 8). This is a two-week Basic Narcotics Officers School with an emphasis on clandestine laboratory training conducted in Vilnius, Lithuania. Thirty-six students [...] |
2005-07-12 05:03:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC LH |
| 05VILNIUS731 |
LITHUANIAN SCIENTISTS ADJUST TO A NEW, MARKET- [...] Summary: Lithuania's research institutes have significant research and development (R&D) capabilities, but generally fail to produce profitable and marketable innovations. While there are some exceptions -- notably in lasers, electronics, and biochemistry -- inadequate funding and a lack of [...] |
2005-07-13 10:28:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON TSPL KSCA PGOV LH |
| 05VILNIUS732 |
GOL EAGER TO DEAL QUIETLY WITH DETAINED BELARUSIAN [...] (C) Summary: Senior GOL officials are focused on managing the detention by Lithuanian authorities of a Belarusian employee of a USAID contractor on charges of money smuggling. The courier was arrested as she attempted to leave Lithuania for Belarus with US$25,000, well over the limit set by Lithuan [...] |
2005-07-13 12:35:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EAID BO LH |
| 05VILNIUS733 |
NO DESECRATION OF GRAVES SEEN BY LOCAL JEWISH [...] Summary: We met with Rabbi Chizkiva Kalmanowitz, an American citizen resident in Israel, on June 29 to discuss his concerns about construction work on the site of a known Jewish cemetery in central Vilnius. Rabbi Kalmanowitz was in Lithuania for 18 hours as part of a survey trip to Jewish he [...] |
2005-07-13 14:07:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL LH |
| 05VILNIUS751 |
WHEELS GRIND IN DETAINED BELARUSIAN COURIER CASE [...] (C) The GOL is keen to resolve the case of a Belarusian courier detained while carrying undeclared cash for an NGO in a manner consistent with its laws, while not undermining its own support for democratic change in Belarus. The GOL is focused on two challenges: resolution of the case, and d [...] |
2005-07-20 11:00:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EAID BO LH |
| 05VILNIUS767 |
WORK ON LITHUANIA'S ROADMAP [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: We have begun taking concrete steps to implement Lithuania's Visa Waiver roadmap. Since the first meeting of our Consular Working Group (CWG) on June 29 (reftel), Consul discussed visa issues on a national radio program with an MFA rep as part of our joint Public Diplomacy camp [...] |
2005-07-25 07:11:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CVIS PREL KPAO LH |
| 05VILNIUS771 |
LABOR PARTY JOSTLING FOR EARLY POSITION AHEAD OF [...] (C) Lithuania's uneasy ruling coalition continues to function amid signs that some of the constituent parties are already beginning to look to the next election cycle. The dual triggers of Labor Party Chairman Viktor Uspaskich's forced resignation as Economy Minister and upcoming municipal el [...] |
2005-07-25 12:31:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL LH |
| 05VILNIUS778 |
PHOTO-SUBSTITUTED LITHUANIAN PASSPORTS: PROOF IS [...] Summary: Good-quality photo-substituted new-generation Lithuanian passports, which have become increasingly popular with citizens of other FSU countries seeking to benefit from Lithuania's membership in the EU, are difficult to detect. Fraudulent documents are generally only distinguishable f [...] |
2005-07-27 13:42:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | KFRD CVIS LH |
| 05VILNIUS781 |
WHO WILL WALK OFF WITH THE BALTICS' ONLY OIL REFINERY? [...] No summary [...] |
2005-07-28 11:14:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ETRD PREL PGOV EPET ENRG RS LH |
| 05VILNIUS8 |
OUTPOURING OF LITHUANIAN SUPPORT FOR TSUNAMI [...] We delivered reftel points encouraging assistance for the victims of the December 26 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami to Diana Mickeviciene of MFA's Asia and Pacific SIPDIS Division on January 4. Mickeviciene said that the GOL will likely announce on January 5 plans to contribute 150,00 [...] |
2005-01-04 14:46:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | AEMR EAID PGOV LH |
| 05VILNIUS80 |
COUNTRY CLEARANCE REQUEST FOR CHRISTIAN YARNELL [...] Embassy Vilnius requests country clearance for POL/ECON Officer Christian Yarnell to travel to Warsaw to attend the January 31-February 1 Warsaw Regional Consular Conference. Mr. Yarnell will arrive on January 29 at 15:15 onboard Flight LO 772, and depart February 1 at 19:55. He holds a Top S [...] |
2005-01-25 15:50:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA LH |
| 05VILNIUS837 |
GOL: ISAF MANDATE ADEQUATE, AS IS; CONCERNS ABOUT [...] (C) We delivered Ref A points on ISAF's mandate to Vytautas Leskevicius, Head of the MFA's NATO Division, on August 10. Leskevicius said that the GOL agrees with the USG position that the current UN mandate is sufficiently broad to allow ISAF to support Afghan security forces in responding to [...] |
2005-08-11 08:00:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PREL AF LH |
| 05VILNIUS857 |
GOL CONTINUES TO SUPPORT TURKEY'S EU BID [...] (C) Vidmantas Purlys, Head of the MFA's EU Sector Policies Coordination Division, told us August 18 that the GOL shares USG concerns about adding conditions to the negotiating framework ahead of the planned October 3 start of EU accession talks with Turkey. Purlys said that while the GOL is [...] |
2005-08-18 14:03:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EU TU LH |
| 05VILNIUS859 |
NEW MINISTER OF ECONOMY EMPHASIZES FOREIGN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Minister of Economy Kestutis Dauksys, meeting with Ambassador on August 16, emphasized the need to attract foreign investment, to improve the capacity of Lithuanian companies, and to develop a sound energy policy that will guarantee fuel supplies and promote Lithuania's energy in [...] |
2005-08-18 14:36:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON EINV ENRG ECIN PREL LH |
| 05VILNIUS87 |
SCENE SETTER FOR A/S MAURA HARTY'S VILNIUS VISIT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY AND INTRODUCTION: Maura, it is an honor and delight to welcome you back to Lithuania, where we continue to benefit from your outstanding work as one of this Mission's "founding mothers." Since your last visit, Lithuania has matured into an important partner for the U.S., with re [...] |
2005-01-26 14:16:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL CMGT CVIS CASC ASEC LH |
| 05VILNIUS88 |
AG MINISTER PRUNSKIENE: MORE EU MEANS ROOM FOR [...] (C) SUMMARY: Agricultural Minister Kazimiera Prunskiene, meeting with Ambassador Mull on January 25, painted a picture of an EU branded agricultural policy for Lithuania and pledged to focus her efforts on rural development. She praised U.S.-Lithuanian cooperation on agricultural and rural de [...] |
2005-01-26 14:32:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | EAGR PGOV ETRD ENRG PHUM LH |
| 05VILNIUS884 |
LITHUANIA MOSTLY AGREES WITH USG POSITIONS FOR [...] (C) SUMMARY: Lithuania basically concurs with U.S. positions on key agenda items for the September 1-2 Gymnich meeting, with some reservations on Turkey. Lina Peciulyte, acting head of the MFA's EU Common Foreign and Security Policy Division, said Lithuania continues to support beginning EU [...] |
2005-08-26 08:17:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | KPAL PREL LH |
| 05VILNIUS888 |
MINISTER OF TRANSPORTATION WILLING TO TAKE HARD [...] (C) Minister of Transportation and Communication Petras Cesna, meeting with the Ambassador on August 25, emphasized his eagerness to see increased US investment in Lithuania, thanked the Ambassador for the close cooperation between his Ministry and the USG, and showed a willingness to consider [...] |
2005-08-29 11:21:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV LH BO |
| 05VILNIUS90 |
Minister of Education and Science Pledges Support in Signin [...] No summary [...] |
2005-01-27 11:27:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV SENV TSPL KPAO LH |
| 05VILNIUS911 |
TFUS01: PRESIDENT ADAMKUS EXPRESSES CONDOLENCES, [...] No summary [...] |
2005-09-02 16:13:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ECON AEMR ASEC CASC MARR AMGT US LH |
| 05VILNIUS912 |
EU COMMISIONERS ENCOURAGE LITHUANIA TO IMPOSE VISA [...] Consul met September 1 with MFA consular division chief Vaidotas Verba, who described a new move by the EU to impose a visa requirement on Americans. Lithuanian EU parliamentarian Justas Paleckis received a letter from EU External Relations Commissioner Benita Ferrero-Waldner and Justice, Free [...] |
2005-09-02 16:54:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | CVIS PREL XG LH |
| 05VILNIUS93 |
Minister of Health Looks to U.S. for Continued [...] No summary [...] |
2005-01-27 15:05:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV TBIO SENV TSPL KPAO LH |
| 05VILNIUS930 |
GOL DISINCLINED TO EMBED TROOPS IN IRAQI UNITS [...] (S) The GOL will likely not embed Lithuanian troops with Iraqi forces as part of the shift of MNF-I's emphasis to building Iraqi capacity (ref A). MOD Undersecretary Renatas Norkus told us that the GOL believes that its soldiers lack the necessary operational experience, language skills, and [...] |
2005-09-07 13:11:00 | Embassy Vilnius | SECRET | MARR MOPS PREL IZ LH |
| 05VILNIUS932 |
GOL TO CONSIDER CONGRATULATING IRAQ; DISCUSSING [...] No summary [...] |
2005-09-07 13:53:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL IZ LH |
| 05VILNIUS946 |
LITHUANIA: INTERESTED IN COMBATING AVIAN [...] Summary. The Government of Lithuania is fully engaged on the Avian Influenza issue. The Ministry of Health is in the process of drafting the Government's national action plan, and Health Minister Zilvinas Padaiga told the Ambassador that the GOL would "be very supportive" of the USG's initiat [...] |
2005-09-09 10:06:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR EAID ECON PREL SOCI TBIO KSCA LH |
| 05VILNIUS947 |
ORGANIZED CRIME IN LITHUANIA (C-CN5-00417) [...] No summary [...] |
2005-09-09 12:59:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PINR SOCI LH |
| 05VILNIUS949 |
VILNIUS COURT DECIDES TO EXTRADITE BANKER TO RUSSIA [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Vilnius District Court decided on September 8 to extradite to Russia Igor Babenko, the manager of the Stavropol branch of Yukos-owned Menatep Bank. Lithuanian authorities had arrested Babenko on July 1 in response to Russia's extradition request. Russian prosecutors accuse B [...] |
2005-09-09 15:38:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ENRG EFIN KCRM KJUS PHUM LH RS |
| 05VILNIUS950 |
TFUS01: LITHUANIA: KATRINA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] Summary: Lithuanian print media is actively covering hurricane "Katrina", echoing official U.S. statements in news reports and reprinting information provided by both international and national news services in all Lithuanian daily newspapers. Recent attention has shifted to Lithuania's possi [...] |
2005-09-12 04:17:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO PREL PGOV LH |
| 05VILNIUS959 |
PRESIDENT ATTENDS 9/11 INTERFAITH COMMEMORATION [...] The Embassy helped to organize an interfaith commemoration for the victims of terrorism at a Lutheran church in Vilnius on September 11. The event represented the first large-scale interfaith service ever held in Lithuania, and was covered by all major national media. Leaders from five fait [...] |
2005-09-13 08:11:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO PREL LH |
| 05VILNIUS962 |
CONTINUING EMIGRATION BEGINNING TO AFFECT LABOR [...] SUMMARY: Lithuanians continue to emigrate since their country joined the EU last year. As Lithuania's skilled workers emigrate, the number of foreign laborers from Belarus and Ukraine has increased. The Government acknowledges the need for programs to manage emigration, encourage emigrants [...] |
2005-09-13 12:17:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB ECON SMIG PGOV LH |
| 05VILNIUS972 |
WHY DO SO MANY LITHUANIANS COMMIT SUICIDE? [...] (U) Lithuania, a dramatic success story in so many ways, is the suicide capital of Europe, with 40 suicides per 100,000 residents each year. Teens and middle-aged men are most at risk. The bustling economy and expanded social protections have failed to lower the suicide rate, which has been [...] |
2005-09-16 09:42:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PHUM PGOV KPAO LH |
| 05VILNIUS977 |
RUSSIAN SU-27 CRASHES IN RURAL LITHUANIA; NO [...] (C) SUMMARY. A Russian fighter-bomber reportedly en route from St. Petersburg to Kaliningrad crashed in the Sokiai region of Lithuania shortly after 1500 local time on September 15. Lithuanian authorities have detained the pilot and are investigating the incident. The Russian Government has [...] |
2005-09-16 13:28:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINS MOPS LH |
| 05VILNIUS986 |
VILNIUS BEGINS YEAR-LONG B1/B2 VALIDATION STUDY [...] SUMMARY: We have begun a year-long validation study of Lithuanian B1/B2 visa applicants to determine the overstay rate for the period November 2004 to November 2005. We have consulted with CA/FPP to ensure that our study will be statistically valid and produce comprehensive information to hel [...] |
2005-09-19 12:58:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | CVIS KFRD LH |
| 05VILNIUS989 |
COORDINATING ASSISTANCE TO PROMOTE DEMOCRACY IN [...] The Ambassador delivered reftel points regarding coordination of assistance to promote democracy in Belarus to MFA Political Director Zygimantas Pavilionis and Renatas Juska of the MFA Political Planning Department, among others, at a gathering of high-level representative of Europe's donor co [...] |
2005-09-20 11:49:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | KDEM EAID PREL BO LH |
| 05VILNIUS993 |
SU-27: THREE ACTION REQUESTS [...] (U) This is an action request for Washington agencies -- see paras 6, 8 and 12 -- and USNATO -- see para 12. 2. (S/NF) Summary: Several loose ends remain from last Friday's crash of a Russian Su-27 (ref a) in Lithuania. Senior Lithuanian officials believe that inconsistencies in Russian [...] |
2005-09-21 13:08:00 | Embassy Vilnius | SECRET | PREL PGOV PINS MOPS LH NATO RU |
| 05VILNIUS994 |
GOL PRESENTS ITS VERSION OF THE SU-27 CRASH [...] (SBU) The Lithuanian MFA delivered to the embassy a nonpaper describing the GOL's version of the events surrounding the crash of the Russian SU-27 in Lithuania (reftel). The account particularly highlights Russian authorities' alleged failure to provide accurate information about the plane, i [...] |
2005-09-21 13:38:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PINS MOPS LH |
| 05VILNIUS996 |
MARIJAMPOLE COUNTY: LITHUANIA'S GOOD COUNTRY [...] SUMMARY: Top officials in one of Lithuania's most sparsely populated counties told the Ambassador that the local economy in Marijampole is doing well. Unemployment is low and skilled labor talented, but a U.S. employer finds it hard to fill jobs. The students in this rural region study Engl [...] |
2005-09-22 05:23:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ECON PGOV LH |
| 06BRATISLAVA977 |
SLOVAKIA POLITICAL ROUND-UP DECEMBER 21, 2006 [...] (SBU) Since the new Smer-SNS-HZDS (Smer-Social Democracy, Slovak National Party, Movement for a Democratic Slovakia) government took office in July, the Embassy has faced increased difficulty in the responsiveness of established contacts from several ministries. Notably in the Ministries of I [...] |
2006-12-21 12:14:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL SOCI LO LH |
| 06KABUL3021 |
AMBASSADOR AND MRS NEUMANN VISIT LITHUANIAN PRT [...] (U) Summary: Ambassador and Mrs. Neumann and Lithuanian Ambassador Srsknys visited Lithuanian PRT Chaghcharan on June 23, and met with Ghor Governor and other provincial officials. The Lithuanians impressed the Ambassador with their excellent relations with provincial officials, regular patro [...] |
2006-07-06 07:26:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PINR EAID ECON LH AF |
| 06KIEV713 |
UKRAINE: YANUKOVYCH STILL BITTER ABOUT THE [...] (C) As of December 2005, Yanukovych still expressed bitterness about what he saw as the December 2004 "putsch" denying him the Presidency, according to Lithuanian Embassy Political Counselor Darius Vitkauskas. Vitkauskas told us February 21 that when the Lithuanian Ambassador saw Yanukovych i [...] |
2006-02-21 14:04:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV LH |
| 06KYIV4305 |
UKRAINE: LITHUANIAN MFA U/S PAVILIONIS AND A/S [...] (SBU) Summary: Lithuanian MFA Under Secretary Zygimantas Pavilionis and A/S Fried discussed developments in the region and measures needed to address recent Russian assertiveness. Paviolionis said that the Lithuanian, Polish, and Ukrainian Presidents formed an effective "troika" in working tog [...] |
2006-11-17 16:47:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV BO UP RS GG TU PL LH |
| 06KYIV4537 |
UKRAINE/LITHUANIA: ADAMKUS LOBBIES FOR [...] (C) Summary: Lithuanian President Valdas Adamkus' three-day state visit to Ukraine -- his fourth trip here this year -- was intended to demonstrate a willingness to work with the new Yanukovych government, promote bilateral trade and investment ties, and facilitate cooperation in the energy s [...] |
2006-12-11 16:05:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV NATO UP LH |
| 06MADRID1908 |
SPAIN: GOS POSITION ON PHARE ASSISTANCE TO TURKISH [...] (U) Poloff delivered reftel demarche to GOS European Correspondent Carlos Fernandez Arias on July 18 and Jose Luis Pardo, an official in the Subdirectorate General for General Affairs, on July 27. 2. (C) Fernandez Arias told Poloff that the Cyprus reintegration is coming to a head and r [...] |
2006-07-27 15:17:00 | Embassy Madrid | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID LH EUN CY SP |
| 06MOSCOW9482 |
RUSSIAN OIL TO LITHUANIA -- MIXING REVENGE AND BUSINESS [...] No summary [...] |
2006-08-30 12:24:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG ECON PREL LH RS |
| 06PARIS5276 |
U.S. DELEGATION REPORT: 30TH SESSION OF THE WORLD HERITAGE [...] Summary: The World Heritage Committee, the 21-nation governing body of the 1972 UNESCO World Heritage Convention, held its 30th Session in Vilnius, Lithuania, July 8-16, 2006. The Committee added eighteen cultural and natural sites to the prestigious World Heritage List and also decided to rem [...] |
2006-08-03 16:59:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | SCUL UNESCO LH |
| 06PRAGUE1420 |
BLUE LANTERN (DTC CASE 05-1007717) -- EXPORT OF [...] (U) Poloff contacted Aviation Service on November 16 and spoke to General Manager Josef Eifler about the equipment referenced in reftel. According to Mr. Eifler, the equipment is helicopter "navigation and communications equipment," which was manufactured and modified by Honeywell for use with [...] |
2006-11-16 15:12:00 | Embassy Prague | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC KOMC LH UK EZ |
| 06PRAGUE851 |
CZECHS SUPPORT PHARE ASSISTANCE, BUT ONLY UNDER [...] (C) Poloff discussed the Czech position on PHARE assistance for the Turkish Cypriot Community on July 25 with MFA Director of Southeast and Eastern Europe Department Tomas Szunyog, and MFA Director of Coordination and Institutions of EU Tomas Ulicny. Szunyog said the Czechs support the PHARE a [...] |
2006-07-25 15:05:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID LH EUN CY EZ |
| 06TALLINN1055 |
ESTONIA PROCESSING GUANTANAMO MIGRANTS [...] (U) On November 3 Poloff delivered reftel points to Mai Hion, MFA Director for Human Rights, on whether the GOE can resettle Haitian and Cuban migrants currently in Guantanamo to Estonia. On November 16, Hion informed us that the request was sent to the Estonian Migration Board for considera [...] |
2006-11-22 11:46:00 | Embassy Tallinn | UNCLASSIFIED | PREF SMIG BU CU LG LH EN |
| 06TALLINN626 |
ESTONIA RETHINKING AIR POLICING POLICY [...] (C) Summary. Air Policing (AP) remains one of the top military/security priorities for the GOE representing, as it does, the only concrete security contribution Estonia receives from NATO membership. Due to repeated Russian incursions into Estonian airspace over the years, the GOE feels that [...] |
2006-07-06 10:52:00 | Embassy Tallinn | CONFIDENTIAL | NATO MOPS PGOV PINS PREL RS LG LH EN |
| 06TALLINN644 |
CREATION OF A BALTIC AMERICAN ENTERPRISE FUND [...] (SBU) Summary: Since its launch in 1995, the Baltic American Enterprise Fund (BalAEF) has played an important role in promoting economic growth in the three Baltic states. It is important for U.S. interests in the Baltics and beyond to create a successor institution that will be ready to st [...] |
2006-07-12 08:04:00 | Embassy Tallinn | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON PGOV PREL EN LH LG |
| 06USUNNEWYORK571 |
LITHUANIA: HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL CANDIDACY [...] Mission received a note from the Permanent Mission of the Republic of Lithuania to the United Nations requesting USG support for its candidature to the Human Rights Council. The elections will be held in New York in May 2006. 2. Mission will respond that careful consideration will be give [...] |
2006-03-23 15:28:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC PHUM UN LH |
| 06VILNIUS1008 |
EU DECISION HELPS REFINERY DEAL BUT SIGNIFICANT [...] (C) Summary: Poland's PKN Orlen has overcome the main legal obstacle hindering its purchase of Lithuania's Mazeikiu Nafta oil refinery (MN) -- approval of the EU's competition authority -- but other hurdles remain. The investigation into the October 12 fire will not conclude before February 1 [...] |
2006-11-09 13:14:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG EPET PREL LH RS PL |
| 06VILNIUS1017 |
LITHUANIAN REFINERY BOARD RESIGNS AFTER FAILING TO [...] (C) Nelson English, the Amcit General Director of Mazeikiu Nafta (MN), Lithuania's only oil refinery, called us late on November 9 to say that that MN's board of directors had resigned after failing to oust him at a board meeting earlier that evening. He said that the GOL's three representativ [...] |
2006-11-13 14:52:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG EPET PREL LH RS PL VE |
| 06VILNIUS102 |
SCENESETTER FOR CODEL MCCAIN [...] (SBU) Senators McCain and Lieberman, a hearty welcome and our sincere thanks to you and your colleagues for traveling to Lithuania! Your visit will provide an opportunity to show gratitude to Lithuania for its staunch and unwavering support in the U.S.-led Global War on Terror and bolster int [...] |
2006-02-02 08:22:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL OVIP BO LH |
| 06VILNIUS103 |
LITHUANIA: 2005/2006 ALLIED CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE [...] The following is the response for Lithuania for the 2005 and 2006 Report on Allied Contributions to the Common Defense. Unless otherwise stated, average exchange rate used throughout the report is: 1 USD = 2.775 Lita. ------------------ General Assessment ------------------ 2. (U) L [...] |
2006-02-02 08:28:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | MCAP PREL LH |
| 06VILNIUS1032 |
LITHUANIA LOOKS TOWARDS RIGA SUMMIT [...] (C) Summary. Looking towards the Riga Summit, Lithuania hopes for encouraging words on Baltic air policing and NATO enlargement. The GOL remains committed to success in Afghanistan, where it may redeploy special forces in 2007. End Summary. Lithuania considering sending SOF to Afghanistan [...] |
2006-11-16 13:57:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR LH LT |
| 06VILNIUS1036 |
LITHUANIA REMAINS COMMITTED TO SUCCESS IN [...] (SBU) As the Fourth Lithuanian Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) left for Kabul November 14, Lithuania continues to demonstrate its commitment to success in Afghanistan. Lithuania is set to take on the entire military operating expense of its PRT in Ghor Province starting January 2007; is c [...] |
2006-11-17 13:20:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL MOPS LH AF |
| 06VILNIUS1037 |
LITHUANIAN FM MEETS WITH RUSSIAN FOREIGN, [...] (C) Summary. Lithuanian FM Vaitiekunas's discussions November 14 with Russia's Foreign and Transport Ministers in Moscow focused on positive areas of cooperation, like Kaliningrad policy and the EU-Russia PCA, as well as touchier subjects such as energy supply and neighborhood policy. Vaitiek [...] |
2006-11-17 14:57:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EUN ENRG RS LH |
| 06VILNIUS1038 |
LITHUANIAN PM VISITS MOLDOVA, DISCUSSES [...] (C) Summary. The GOL strongly supports efforts to develop an EU peace Consolidation Mission for Moldova, but MFA officials do not believe that consensus is possible in the EU. End Summary. Consensus lacking for EU PCM Mission in Moldova --------------------------------------------- --- [...] |
2006-11-17 15:05:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL LH RS MD |
| 06VILNIUS1050 |
LITHUANIAN FOREIGN POLICY GURU LANDS ON HIS FEET [...] (C) SUMMARY: Albinas Januska was appointed advisor to Prime Minister Kirkilas on November 20, ending weeks of speculation following his abrupt resignation as Undersecretary at MFA (reftel). Although he remains under a cloud of allegations, Januska appears likely to weather the storm. We ex [...] |
2006-11-22 14:39:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV LH |
| 06VILNIUS1051 |
LITHUANIA ON TURKEY'S EU ACCESSION PROCESS [...] (C) Summary. Lithuania's government agrees with us on the importance of keeping Turkey engaged in the EU accession process, but also wants Turkey to fulfill its Ankara commitments. Going into the December European Council, Lithuania is pushing its EU partners to consider a middle way, suspen [...] |
2006-11-22 14:39:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EUN TU LH |
| 06VILNIUS1068 |
LITHUANIA SEEKS ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON SPECIAL 301 [...] (U) This cable contains an action request. Please see paragraph six. 2. (U) Summary: Post welcomes the opportunity to engage the new Lithuanian government -- whose cabinet is dealing with the Special 301 process for the first time -- in a cooperative effort to improve Lithuania's intellec [...] |
2006-11-30 14:47:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD KIPR PGOV LH |
| 06VILNIUS1072 |
STRANDED TRUCKERS PONDER EU "OPEN MARKET" [...] (SBU) Summary: The long lines of trucks that began appearing November 20 at all four border crossing points where commercial traffic can enter Latvia from Lithuania have now largely disappeared, but the episode has affected Lithuanian-Latvian relations. Lithuania formally complained to the Eu [...] |
2006-12-01 13:59:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELTN PREL LH LG EUN RS BO |
| 06VILNIUS1073 |
LITHUANIA UNAWARE OF AVIATION EMISSIONS TRADING SCHEME [...] (SBU) We delivered reftel non-paper on November 27 to officials in the Ministry of Environment, the Ministry of Transportation, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. None of our interlocutors was aware of the European Commission's specific proposal to force non-EU air carriers to join the EU Em [...] |
2006-12-01 14:46:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR ECON SENV LH EUN |
| 06VILNIUS1089 |
LITHUANIAN FM TO RAISE TURKEY, BELARUS, EUROPEAN [...] (C) Summary. Lithuania's FM plans to intervene at the December 11 GAERC to support Turkey's EU accession, discourage the repeal of GSP for Belarus, and oppose draft language in the upcoming European Council conclusions about "integration capacity" and "constitutional treaty reform." The Minis [...] |
2006-12-08 12:21:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM EUN LH |
| 06VILNIUS11 |
SCENESETTER FOR CODEL SENSENBRENNER [...] Congressman Sensenbrenner, on behalf of Ambassador Stephen Mull and our colleagues at the U.S. Mission in Vilnius, thank you for traveling to Lithuania. Your visit here will provide an opportunity to show gratitude to Lithuania for its staunch and unwavering support in the U.S.-led Global War [...] |
2006-01-06 05:06:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL OVIP PL LH |
| 06VILNIUS110 |
GOL CONTINUES TO SUPPORT US-EU EFFORTS ON IRAN [...] No summary [...] |
2006-02-02 14:34:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | KNNP PARM PREL AORC IR LH |
| 06VILNIUS1110 |
LITHUANIA'S NEW BUDGET INCREASES DEFENSE SPENDING, [...] (SBU) Summary. Minister of Defense Juozas Olekas told the Ambassador that Lithuania's 2007 budget meets the Defense Ministry's goal of programming an increase in defense spending as a percentage of GDP of .05 percent, to 1.25 percent. While this is technically accurate due to modest official [...] |
2006-12-14 13:47:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV MARR LH |
| 06VILNIUS1111 |
SALE OF LITHUANIA'S REFINERY NEARS COMPLETION [...] (C) Summary: The official closing of the sale of Lithuania's Mazeikiu Nafta (MN) oil refinery to Poland's PKN Orlen should occur on December 15. The GOL will receive nearly USD 852 million and Yukos International USD 1.5 billion for its majority stake. MN will also fire six high-level manage [...] |
2006-12-14 14:18:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG EPET PREL LH RS PL VE NL |
| 06VILNIUS1113 |
LITHUANIA CONSIDERING CLOSER TIES WITH IRAN [...] (U) This is an action request -- see para four. 2. (C) MFA Americas and Asia Director Jonas Paslauskas told us December 13 that the GOL was considering an Iranian government request to hold working-level (director level) meetings. The GOL already has diplomatic relations with the GOI. H [...] |
2006-12-15 14:19:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL LH IR |
| 06VILNIUS1114 |
LITHUANIA CONSIDERING DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS WITH [...] (U) This is an action request -- see para four. 2. (C) MFA Americas Director Jonas Paslauskas told us December 13 that the GOL was mulling the establishment of diplomatic relations with Cuba. He cited two reasons for the review of its current policy. First, he noted an increasing volume [...] |
2006-12-15 15:13:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL LH CU |
| 06VILNIUS1119 |
DEFENSE MINISTER TALKS ABOUT AFGHANISTAN, IRAQ [...] (C) Summary. Lithuanian Defense Minister Juozas Olekas told the Ambassador that the GOL is still considering sending Special Operations Forces (SOF) to Afghanistan during their December 13 meeting. He also expressed interest in U.S. plans in Iraq, where Lithuania has troops, emphasized the i [...] |
2006-12-18 10:56:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PREL LH AF |
| 06VILNIUS120 |
GOL WON'T LINK TURKEY/CYPRUS AGENDA AND CUSTOMS [...] No summary [...] |
2006-02-07 11:30:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL CY TU LH EUN |
| 06VILNIUS121 |
FALSE ALARM: NO BIRD FLU IN LITHUANIA [...] Reports of a possible case of avian influenza in Lithuania's port city of Klaipeda have proved false. The Ministry of Health initially feared that the disease may have caused the death of an Indian sailor, who died on February 6 while his ship was docked in the Lithuanian port of Klaipeda. E [...] |
2006-02-07 14:07:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO SOCI PGOV LH |
| 06VILNIUS129 |
LITHUANIA: INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT 2006 [...] The following paragraphs represent a corrected version of our Investment Climate Statement for 2006. We have also submitted via e-mail (per reftel instructions) a copy of this report in MS Word format to DOS/EB/IFD/OIA (Hatcher) and DOS/EB/IFD/OIA (Brown). 2. Begin text of report: 2006 [...] |
2006-02-09 08:00:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | LH NOTAG |
| 06VILNIUS132 |
(C) GOL WILL SUPPORT GUATEMALA FOR UNSC SEAT [...] No summary [...] |
2006-02-09 12:54:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL GT VE LH UN UNSC |
| 06VILNIUS135 |
LITHUANIA'S PRO-DEMOCRACY SUMMIT: AN OPPORTUNITY [...] (U) Summary. Lithuania intends to hold a high-profile "Summit of the Communities for Democratic Choice" May 4-5 in Vilnius. GOL conference organizers are aiming high, hoping to build momentum towards democracy among transitional countries in the former Soviet Union. They plan to convene he [...] |
2006-02-10 15:54:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL LH |
| 06VILNIUS136 |
IRAN PROTESTS LITHUANIA'S REPRINTING OF MUHAMMAD [...] (SBU) The Lithuanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs received a diplomatic note from Iran on February 9 protesting the publication in the Lithuanian press of cartoons featuring the Prophet Muhammad. On February 8, Lithuania's infamous daily "Respublika," which has repeatedly printed hateful cartoo [...] |
2006-02-10 16:33:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS PHUM IR LH |
| 06VILNIUS137 |
PDAS VOLKER MEETS WITH LITHUANIA'S FOREIGN POLICY [...] (C) EUR PDAS Kurt Volker and Ambassador discussed regional issues February 8 with MFA Undersecretary Albinas Januska, Lithuania's chief foreign policy strategist. Januska provided a readout of a "difficult conversation" between GOL FM Valionis and Ukrainian FM Tarasyuk in which Valionis urged [...] |
2006-02-10 16:47:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM EAID PGOV BO UP LH |
| 06VILNIUS146 |
LITHUANIA: RESTITUTION LEGISLATION FOR JEWISH [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Lithuania is moving ahead with plans for the restitution of former Jewish communal property, an important element in addressing its Nazi and Soviet legacy. The government's support for restitution remains solid, and the GOL plans to submit the necessary legislation to Parliament [...] |
2006-02-13 13:36:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KNAR PHUM LH |
| 06VILNIUS147 |
PALESTINIAN ASSISTANCE: LITHUANIA DISTURBED BY [...] (C) We delivered reftel points regarding Palestinian assistance to Vaclovas Salkauskas, head of the MFA's Middle East Division, February 13. Salkauskas said that Lithuania agrees with the USG stance against assistance to a new Palestinian Authority government unless it renounces terrorism, re [...] |
2006-02-13 13:58:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPAL RS IS LH |
| 06VILNIUS148 |
LITHUANIA BRIEFED ON REPORTING IRAN TO THE UN [...] No summary [...] |
2006-02-13 15:38:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PREL KNNP AORC IR LH |
| 06VILNIUS15 |
(C) GOL UNLIKELY TO APPROVE HELICOPTER TRAINING [...] (C) We delivered ref A points regarding the Lithuanian firm Avia Baltika's license application to broker helicopter training to Iranian pilots in Russia to Martynas Lukosevicius of the MFA'S Arms Control, Non-Proliferation, and Disarmament Division, January 6. Encouraging Lukosevicius to share [...] |
2006-01-06 15:48:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | KSTC PARM PREL ETTC MASS IR RS LH |
| 06VILNIUS157 |
CONSULAR WORKING GROUP DISCUSSES PROGRESS ON LITHUANIA'S [...] The joint GOL-Embassy Consular Working Group (CWG) met at Embassy request on February 8, 2006. Attendees included the Foreign Ministry's Consular Department Director Vaidotas Verba, Deputy Director Petras Anusas, and Consular Attache Marijus Petrusonis, as well as the Consul, both Vice Consuls [...] |
2006-02-15 08:11:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | CMGT CVIS PREL LH |
| 06VILNIUS164 |
GOL SCALES BACK BORDER CEREMONY WITH BELARUS [...] (C) Summary: A senior GOL MFA official told us that the signing of a border demarcation agreement with Belarus will occur without fanfare or press and will only involve sub-cabinet level officials. The MFA officials have proposed a signing date of February 28 to the GOB and await a response. [...] |
2006-02-17 15:30:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EU BO LH |
| 06VILNIUS198 |
LITHUANIA 2006 ANNUAL TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS (TIP) REPORT [...] (SBU) Summary: Lithuania is a source, transit, and destination country for trafficking in persons (TIP). The government of Lithuania (GOL) estimates that between 1,000 and 1,200 women leave Lithuania every year to engage in prostitution, basing their calculations on 2003 Europol data. There [...] |
2006-02-27 15:44:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM KCRM KWMN ELAB SMIG ASEC KFRD PREF LH |
| 06VILNIUS204 |
LITHUANIANS LIKE USA BUT GWOT SUPPORT IS TEPID; POLL HELPS [...] SUMMARY: An Embassy-commissioned poll funded by EUR/PPD showed that a strong majority of Lithuanians continue to view the United States favorably. The survey also showed a positive correlation between knowing an American and having a positive image of the United States. Not all the news was [...] |
2006-02-28 12:50:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO CVIS PREL LH |
| 06VILNIUS223 |
LITHUANIA'S AI PREPAREDNESS: IS FOUR PERCENT ENOUGH? [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The GOL continues to plan for the arrival of avian influenza (AI) virus in Lithuania, but budgetary constraints may hinder preparations, particularly the acquisition of antiviral medication. The Government issued orders requiring owners to sequester domestic birds indoors and p [...] |
2006-03-03 11:39:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO AMED EAGR SOCI PGOV KFLU LH |
| 06VILNIUS224 |
LITHUANIA'S REFINERY LOOKS TO VENEZUELA TO BALANCE [...] (U) ACTION REQUEST: This cable contains an action request; please see paragraph seven. 2. (C) SUMMARY: Nelson English, General Manager of the Mazeikiu Nafta (MN) oil refinery in the Baltics, told the Charge that his company is considering a supply deal with the Venezuelan state-owned oil [...] |
2006-03-03 12:15:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG EPET PREL LH VE RS |
| 06VILNIUS228 |
BALTIC STATES AGREE ON A NEW NUCLEAR POWER PLANT IN [...] (U) SUMMARY: The prime ministers of Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania declared their support February 27 for a common Baltic and EU energy policy and elaborated objectives for long-term Baltic energy cooperation. The common energy policy the PMs endorsed anticipates construction of a new nuclear [...] |
2006-03-03 16:11:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | ENRG ECON EINV BEXP LH EN LG |
| 06VILNIUS233 |
AMBASSADOR HIGHLIGHTS STRONG BILATERAL [...] SUMMARY: Ambassador Mull traveled to Kaunas, Lithuania's second largest city, on February 28 to discuss regional development, promote student travel to the United States, and pay a courtesy call on Lithuania's new Air Force Commander. The Ambassador highlighted our strong bilateral relation [...] |
2006-03-06 10:41:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV OVIP LH |
| 06VILNIUS278 |
ELECTION EVE DUSTUP IN LITHUANIA-BELARUS RELATIONS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Lithuanian-Belarusian relations are tense on the eve of the March 19 elections. The decision by the Minsk regime to deny visas to six Lithuanian MPs who planned to observe the elections led Parliament to pass a resolution condemning the Lukashenko government. The Lithuanian Fo [...] |
2006-03-17 14:09:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV BO LH |
| 06VILNIUS279 |
EUR DAS KRAMER AND EU REPS COORDINATE BELARUS [...] (C) SUMMARY: EUR DAS David Kramer participated in an informal meeting on Belarus with EU officials and representatives from EU capitals March 14 in Vilnius. The participants agreed that the USG and the EU will coordinate their statements and actions in the immediate post-election period. EU [...] |
2006-03-17 14:27:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EPET RS UP BO KZ LH |
| 06VILNIUS284 |
GOL TO FOCUS ON BELARUS DURING MARCH 20 FOREIGN [...] (C) We delivered points in reftel A to Tomas Gulbinas, head of the MFA's Common Foreign and Security Policy Division, March 16. Gulbinas, who is traveling with the Foreign Minister to the meeting, said that he would consider our points before the Minister's pre-brief March 17, but that he did [...] |
2006-03-17 15:38:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON ETRD LH BL |
| 06VILNIUS29 |
LITHUANIA'S ECONOMIC BOOM: IS THE END NIGH? [...] SUMMARY: Lithuania's impressive economic growth continued in 2005. Wage increases, rising energy prices, and strong domestic consumption contributed to inflationary pressure, but a government budget surplus, improved credit rating, and a shrinking current account deficit indicate prudent eco [...] |
2006-01-12 15:05:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EINV ETRD LH |
| 06VILNIUS30 |
LITHUANIA PUSHES TO RETAIN/REBUILD NUCLEAR POWER [...] (U) SUMMARY: Lithuanian authorities are using the recent Russia-Ukraine gas dispute as an action-forcing event to build a new nuclear power plant and, possibly, to seek EU permission to keep the Soviet-era Ignalina plant online until a new facility is complete. Expectations are low that Bruss [...] |
2006-01-12 15:12:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG ECON LH |
| 06VILNIUS355 |
RUSSIAN BANKER BABENKO'S PRISON TIME EXTENDED; [...] A Vilnius court extended the imprisonment of former Russian banker Igor Babenko for three months on April 7. After the Vilnius court ruled on September 8, 2005, to extradite Babenko (reftel), the Migration Department subsequently granted asylum status on January 30. The Prosecutor General app [...] |
2006-04-12 10:27:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV ENRG EFIN KCRM KJUS PHUM LH RS |
| 06VILNIUS357 |
PARLIAMENT OUSTS SPEAKER IN LATEST LITHUANIAN [...] (C) The Lithuanian parliament removed Speaker Arturas Paulauskas April 11 in an overwhelming vote of no confidence that resulted in his New Union party's departure from the ruling coalition. It appears the remaining three coalition partners will succeed in retaining control of the government [...] |
2006-04-12 13:19:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL LH |
| 06VILNIUS36 |
LITHUANIA SUPPORTS REPORTING IRAN TO THE UN [...] No summary [...] |
2006-01-13 14:41:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL KNNP AORC LH |
| 06VILNIUS367 |
LITHUANIA: THREE-PARTY COALITION REGROUPS [...] (C) Summary. Leaders of Lithuania's Social Democrat, Labor, and Farmers parties signed an agreement April 12 to govern as a coalition following Parliament's removal of parliamentary chairman Paulauskas and the withdrawal of his New Union party from the government. Under the agreement, Prime [...] |
2006-04-14 15:06:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL LH |
| 06VILNIUS376 |
LITHUANIAN COALITION LOSES ITS MAJORITY, BUT [...] (C) SUMMARY: A member of Lithuania's ruling coalition, Kazys Bobelis, withdrew from his party April 20, depriving the coalition government of a clear majority in the Parliament. This move comes nine days after the parliament removed its speaker, prompting the speaker's Nw Union (Social Liber [...] |
2006-04-20 15:39:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV LH |
| 06VILNIUS379 |
PROSECUTORS APPEAL SENTENCING OF CONVICTED NAZI [...] Lithuania,s Prosecutor General,s Office appealed on April 14 the lack of a sentence for convicted Nazi collaborator Algimantas Mykolas Dailide. The 85 year-old Dailide was convicted of crimes against Jews for his collaboration with the Nazis on March 27, but the court imposed no sentence due [...] |
2006-04-21 14:08:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | KJUS PHUM CPAS LH |
| 06VILNIUS42 |
CODEL SENSENBRENNER DISCUSSES VISA WAIVER PROGRAM [...] Summary: Congressman F. James Sensenbrenner, Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, discussed Lithuania's Visa Waiver Program (VWP) prospects and expressed U.S. appreciation for Lithuania's support in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere in meetings with President Adamkus and other senior off [...] |
2006-01-18 13:40:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL CVIS OVIP LH |
| 06VILNIUS422 |
LITHUANIA DISPUTES PIRACY STATS, BUT EAGER TO IMPROVE IPR [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: We informed the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) and Ministry of Culture on April 28 that this year's Special 301 Review again put Lithuania on the Watch List. Our Ministry of Culture contact questioned the sources of information the Review's authors used, but added that the G [...] |
2006-05-09 10:40:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD KIPR LH |
| 06VILNIUS429 |
LITHUANIA: CAN'T YET CONFIRM SUPPORT FOR SMALLPOX [...] (SBU) We spoke with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) and the Ministry of Health (MOH) on the importance of maintaining the U.S./Russian smallpox repositories in light of the upcoming May 22-27 discussions on the smallpox resolution at the World Health Assembly (WHA). The head of the MOH' [...] |
2006-05-10 14:25:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL AORC TBIO LH |
| 06VILNIUS431 |
LABOR PARTY SPLITS, COALITION KEEPS IT TOGETHER [...] (C) Eight members of parliament, including the newly elected Speaker, withdrew from the Labor Party May 2 and 3, formed a new parliamentary group, and promised to support the ruling coalition of which they are no longer officially members. Over four hundred Labor Party members followed the pa [...] |
2006-05-10 14:38:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV LH |
| 06VILNIUS438 |
LITHUANIA APPRECIATES USG ANNOUNCEMENT OF IMPLEMENTATION [...] We spoke on May 9 with Viktoras Meizis, head of the Ministry of Health's International Relations Division about the USG's announcement of the Implementation Plan for the National Strategy for Pandemic Influenza. Meizis said he appreciated this information and that he found the "pandemicflu.gov [...] |
2006-05-12 10:40:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO KFLU KPAO SENV LH |
| 06VILNIUS45 |
LITHUANIA: 2005/2006 ALLIED CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE [...] The following is the response for Lithuania for the 2005 and 2006 Report on Allied Contributions to the Common Defense. Unless otherwise stated, average exchange rate used throughout the report is: 1 USD = 2.775 Lita. ------------------ General Assessment ------------------ 2. (U) L [...] |
2006-01-30 09:32:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | MCAP PREL LH |
| 06VILNIUS450 |
LITHUANIA SUPPORTS U.S. POSITION ON MAINTAINING [...] No summary [...] |
2006-05-15 10:45:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL AORC TBIO LH |
| 06VILNIUS459 |
POLISH COMPANY SURGING IN BID TO BUY LITHUANIAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Polish energy company PKN Orlen has emerged as the frontrunner to secure a controlling interest in Lithuania's oil refinery, according to a reliable government source. Court challenges in the United States and Netherlands continue and may yet derail the sale of the refinery. [...] |
2006-05-18 14:09:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG ECON EPET PREL PGOV ETRD NL RS LH |
| 06VILNIUS470 |
LITHUANIA'S RULING COALITION ENCOUNTERS MORE TROUBLE [...] (SBU) Lithuania's three-party governing coalition is defending itself against yet another challenge to its rule, even as a new party is maneuvering to join. New Parliament Speaker Viktoras Muntianas is leading the new Civil Democracy Party bid for coalition membership, demanding a cabinet seat [...] |
2006-05-23 07:30:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV LH |
| 06VILNIUS473 |
DISTRICT COURT OVERTURNS RUSSIAN BANKER BABENKO'S [...] Vilnius District Administrative Court revoked on May 22 the Migration Department's decision granting Russian banker Igor Babenko asylum in Lithuania. Babenko has seven days to appeal to the Supreme Administrative Court. Barring an appeal, the ruling sets the stage for the Vilnius Appeals Co [...] |
2006-05-23 12:54:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV ENRG EFIN KCRM PHUM LH RS |
| 06VILNIUS479 |
GOL CONSIDERING 50,000 CONTRIBUTION TO THE TRUST [...] No summary [...] |
2006-05-24 12:33:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL NATO MOPS LH IZ |
| 06VILNIUS480 |
GOL TO ENGAGE KYRGYSTAN ON MANAS AIRFIELD, [...] (C) We delivered reftel points to Vytautas Leskevicius, Head of the MFA's NATO Division, May 24, and asked the GOL to urge Kyrgystan to allow continued access to Manas airfield. Leskevicius said that this is an important issue for all ISAF coalition partners, and that Lithuania would try to fin [...] |
2006-05-24 12:34:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | AF MARR MOPS PREL LH UZ |
| 06VILNIUS483 |
GOL NEGOTIATING UKRAINIAN PARTICIPATION IN PRT IN [...] No summary [...] |
2006-05-25 13:45:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR MOPS AF UP LH |
| 06VILNIUS487 |
(C) LITHUANIA'S ISAF PRT (C-RE6-00473) [...] (C) This cable responds to reftel's questions about host country's Provincial Reconstruction Teams (PRT) in Afghanistan. -------------------------------- GOL COMMITTED TO AFGHANISTAN PRT -------------------------------- 2. (C) The GOL remains committed to leading the PRT in Ghor Provin [...] |
2006-05-26 11:25:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | AF PINR MASS MOPS PTER LH |
| 06VILNIUS499 |
GOL CONSIDERING 50,000 EURO CONTRIBUTION TO THE [...] No summary [...] |
2006-05-31 09:24:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL NATO MOPS LH IZ |
| 06VILNIUS502 |
LITHUANIA'S GOVERNING COALITION COLLAPSES [...] (C) Lithuania's ruling coalition collapsed on May 31 when its biggest member, the Labor Party, withdrew. PM Brazauskas and President Adamkus met today to discuss next steps. Multiple sources indicate the PM has tendered his resignation, although the PM has not made a public announcement. We [...] |
2006-05-31 13:23:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV LH |
| 06VILNIUS51 |
(C) GOL DENIES EXPORT LICENSE FOR IRANIAN HELO [...] (C) Martynas Lukosevicius of the MFA's Arms Control, Non-Proliferation, and Disarmament Division informed us January 19 that the GOL would refuse the Lithuanian firm Avia Baltika's request for a license to broker helicopter training in Russia for Iranian pilots (ref C). The decision of gover [...] |
2006-01-20 13:24:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | KSTC PARM PREL ETTC MASS IR RS LH |
| 06VILNIUS511 |
INTERIM GOVERNMENT TAKES POWER IN LITHUANIA [...] (C) Lithuanian Prime Minister Algirdas Brazauskas handed a letter of resignation to the President Valdas Adamkus on June 1, following the May 31 withdrawal of the Labor Party and its five ministers from the ruling coalition (reftel). Brazauskas's Cabinet remains in place on an interim basis wi [...] |
2006-06-02 13:58:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV LH |
| 06VILNIUS520 |
2006 TIP REPORT DELIVERED [...] (SBU) We delivered Lithuania's 2006 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) narrative and tier ranking to Lina Gubreviciute of the MFA's Americas Section on June 5. Gubreviciute thanked us for the courtesy copy and reiterated Lithuania's commitment to combat trafficking in persons. She said that Lithu [...] |
2006-06-06 12:57:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM KWMN PGOV PHUM PREL LH |
| 06VILNIUS522 |
GAERC: GOL TO RAISE EURO, ENLARGEMENT [...] (C) We delivered reftel points to Tomas Gulbinas, Head of the MFA's Common Foreign Policy and Security Division, June 6. Gulbinas told us that the June 12 GAERC would concentrate less on external affairs and more on "future of Europe" questions. Lithuania plans to intervene, he said, to enc [...] |
2006-06-06 13:19:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | UN KPAL PREL LH |
| 06VILNIUS523 |
(C) PM BRAZAUSKAS'S PRE-RESIGNATION FAREWELL [...] (C) Lithuania's Prime Minister Algirdas Brazauskas, during the Ambassador's May 30 farewell call, outlined his five-year plan to increase defense spending and affirmed his commitment to Jewish property restitution. The Ambassador noted the GOL's tremendous contribution to the Global war On Ter [...] |
2006-06-06 14:13:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ENRG EINV KNAR LH RS |
| 06VILNIUS526 |
LITHUANIA: RAINBOW COALITION PROVES ELUSIVE [...] (C) Lithuania's Social Democratic and Conservative Parties are working to form a ruling coalition, either separately or together, in the wake of the June 1 collapse of the Government of Lithuania (refs a and b). The President, favoring a rainbow coalition government, continues to consult with [...] |
2006-06-07 13:51:00 | Embassy Vilnius | SECRET | PREL PGOV PINR LH |
| 06VILNIUS529 |
GOL CONSIDERING FUTURE NRF CONTRIBUTIONS; TAPPED [...] (C) We delivered reftel points urging additional pledges to the NATO Response Force (NRF) to Undersecretary of Defense Renatas Norkus on June 6. Norkus told us he appreciates the recently announced U.S. contributions to "rescue" the NRF and agreed that all allies will have to contribute more t [...] |
2006-06-08 13:58:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL NATO LH |
| 06VILNIUS53 |
WORKING WITH THE BRAZAUSKAS GOVERNMENT: LOOKING [...] (C) SUMMARY: One year ago, we laid out a plan to strategically engage the newly elected coalition government headed by veteran politician Algirdas Brazauskas (reftel). Despite political tumult within the coalition, we succeeded in enlisting the new government to support key U.S. objectives, [...] |
2006-01-20 14:56:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MOPS AMGT EINV LH |
| 06VILNIUS533 |
LITHUANIA: NO CHANGES TO INVESTMENT DISPUTES AND [...] We are aware of no reportable instances of expropriation or nationalization of the assets or property of U.S. persons in Lithuania. We recommend that the Lithuania section of the 2006 Report of US Citizen Expropriation Claims adopt the same language as the 2005 report: -- The United States [...] |
2006-06-09 09:37:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV KIDE LH |
| 06VILNIUS538 |
LITHUANIA: EUROPEAN COUNCIL TO MAKE STATEMENT ON [...] (S) We delivered reftel points to Tomas Gulbinas of the MFA's Common Foreign and Security Policy Division on June 9. Gulbinas told us that Lithuania strongly agrees with United States on both the need for a common public EU position on Iran and the need to broaden discussion on Iran beyond Iran [...] |
2006-06-09 13:18:00 | Embassy Vilnius | SECRET | UN KPAL PREL LH IR |
| 06VILNIUS540 |
LITHUANIA HOLDS SUB-MINISTERIAL LEVEL DIALOGUE [...] (C) Summary. Subcabinet-level officials from the Lithuanian and Belarusian Foreign Ministries held annual bilateral meetings June 1-3. Discussions focused on the impending increase in visa fees for Belarusians, the closure of Lithuania's consulate in Grodno, and economic and environmental is [...] |
2006-06-09 14:11:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL LH BO |
| 06VILNIUS541 |
LITHUANIA: REACH DIRECTIVE COSTLY, INEVITABLE [...] (SBU) We delivered reftel points on USG views regarding the draft versions of the REACH Directive to the Ministry of Environment and the Ministry of Economy on June 1. We also delivered a copy of the points to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' Trade Division. 2. (SBU) The Chief Officer of th [...] |
2006-06-12 06:43:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD BEXP LH |
| 06VILNIUS549 |
PRESSURE BUILDS TO CONSTRUCT NUCLEAR POWER PLANT [...] (C) SUMMARY: A well-placed source says that a two-year French plan to convince the GOL to build a French-designed nuclear power plant is succeeding. According to this account, the French have persuaded many of Lithuania's political leaders of the need to build a nuclear power plant as soon a [...] |
2006-06-13 13:22:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG PREL PGOV ECON LH FR |
| 06VILNIUS555 |
LITHUANIA CONSIDERING COMMENTS ON ICANN [...] We delivered reftel points June 6 encouraging interested parties to submit comments as part of the National Telecommunications and Information Center's (NTIA) public consultation process on the role of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to the GOL's Communications R [...] |
2006-06-15 13:03:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ECPS EINT ETRD ETTC LH |
| 06VILNIUS561 |
JUSTICE MINISTER PROMISES NO CHANGE IN STATEGIC [...] (U) SUMMARY: Lithuania's acting Minister of Justice Gintautas Buzinskas, during the Ambassador's June 9 farewell call, said that there will be no slippage in the GOL's commitment to Jewish property restitution. He also thanked the United States for its excellent law enforcement cooperation. [...] |
2006-06-15 13:34:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KNAR LH |
| 06VILNIUS562 |
LITHUANIAN PRESIDENT PROPOSES SOCIAL DEMOCRAT FOR [...] (SBU) President Valdas Adamkus nominated Social Democrat and acting Prime Minister Zigmantas Balcytis for the post of Prime Minister on June 15. Parliament needs to vote on the nomination before June 22, and may vote as early as June 20. The Social Democratic parliamentary bloc has not yet bee [...] |
2006-06-15 13:42:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR LH |
| 06VILNIUS568 |
LITHUANIA: KRAFT FOOD'S CORPORATE EXCELLENCE [...] Summary: Mission Vilnius nominates Kraft Foods Lithuania for the Corporate Excellence Award in the multinational enterprise (MNE) category. In advancing this nomination, we highlight the enormous contributions Kraft Foods Lithuania has made to Lithuania's business culture and society at large [...] |
2006-06-19 07:47:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EINV BEXP LH |
| 06VILNIUS570 |
PARLIAMENTARY SPEAKER'S FAREWELL MEETING WITH [...] (C) SUMMARY: Lithuania's Parliamentary Speaker Viktoras Muntianas, during the Ambassador's June 6 farewell call, expressed hope that a government coalition uniting Lithuania's political left and right will soon emerge. He declared his willingness to move Jewish property restitution forward a [...] |
2006-06-19 10:58:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ENRG EINV KNAR LH |
| 06VILNIUS573 |
LITHUANIAN PRESIDENT: EU INCOMPLETE WITHOUT TURKEY [...] (SBU) President Adamkus argued for the eventual accession of Turkey to the European Union in a June 17 interview with Turkish newspaper Miliyet, according to the Lithuanian press. Adamkus plans to make an official visit to Turkey later this week, where he will meet President Sezer, PM Erdogan, [...] |
2006-06-19 13:48:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL LH TU |
| 06VILNIUS581 |
PARLIAMENT REJECTS SOCIAL DEMOCRAT CANDIDATE FOR [...] (SBU) The Lithuanian Parliament today rejected Acting Prime Minister Zigmantas Balcytis's candidacy for prime minister. Fifty-two MPs supported the Social Democrat's candidacy, 48 voted against, and 32 abstained; his appointment required a simple majority of those present (67 votes). The Pre [...] |
2006-06-20 13:57:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR LH |
| 06VILNIUS584 |
JEWISH CEMETERY IN VILNIUS - OVERVIEW AND UPDATE [...] (SBU) The newest front in Lithuania's struggle to come to terms with its troubled past is a Jewish cemetery that Russian Czars closed in 1830 and which they and the Soviets largely destroyed. The site, known as the Snipiskes cemetery, has attracted the fervent interest of the Committee for th [...] |
2006-06-21 14:14:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KNAR LH |
| 06VILNIUS591 |
LITHUANIA RESPONSIVE TO TIP REPORT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Our interlocutors here positively appraised the 2006 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) report and reftel points. The report,s recommendations have already inspired the GOL to implement measures to improve anti-trafficking efforts. The GOL is also working on a comprehensive strateg [...] |
2006-06-23 09:20:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM KWMN PHUM PREL PGOV SMIG LH |
| 06VILNIUS597 |
LITHUANIA TO ATTEND AFGHANISTAN PRT EFFECTIVENESS [...] No summary [...] |
2006-06-23 13:06:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | AF AORC NATO LH |
| 06VILNIUS606 |
LITHUANIA HOPES FOR WTO AGREEMENT [...] No summary [...] |
2006-06-29 07:52:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | WTRO ETRD ECON LH |
| 06VILNIUS610 |
LITHUANIAN PRESIDENT NOMINATES DEFENSE MINISTER AS [...] (SBU) Lithuanian President Valdas Adamkus nominated acting Defense Minister Gediminas Kirkilas for the post of Prime Minister June 28. The parliament held hearings on the nomination June 29 and will vote on Kirkilas's candidacy as early as July 4. The Social Democrats and Conservatives appea [...] |
2006-06-29 14:42:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINR LH |
| 06VILNIUS618 |
TWO RUSSIAN OIL SUPPLIERS CANCEL JULY CRUDE [...] (C) SUMMARY: RosNeft and Vitol have cancelled their crude shipments to Lithuania's Mazeikiu Nafta oil refinery (MN) for July, leaving the refinery with only half of the crude it expected to process this month. The shortfall will affect Latvia and Estonia as well as Lithuania. MN, which curre [...] |
2006-07-03 13:46:00 | Embassy Vilnius | SECRET | PREL EPET ECON LH RU VE |
| 06VILNIUS620 |
PARLIAMENT OVERWHELMINGLY APPROVES KIRKILAS AS PRIME [...] (SBU) Lithuania's parliament overwhelmingly approved Acting Defense Minister Gediminas Kirkilas for the post of Prime Minister on July 4. The Social Democrat must submit the government's program and his proposed cabinet to the parliament by July 19, but may do so sooner. Zigmantas Balcytis wi [...] |
2006-07-05 11:12:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV LH |
| 06VILNIUS622 |
LITHUANIA ENGAGES ARMENIA AND AZERBAIJAN [...] (C) Summary. Lithuania has sought in recent months to increasingly engage the governments of Armenia and Azerbaijan to encourage democratic change and deeper Euro-integration. The Lithuanians view this engagement as a logical progression of the neighborhood policy that they pursue with Ukraine [...] |
2006-07-05 12:21:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | LH PREL AM AZ |
| 06VILNIUS623 |
PRESIDENT, PRIME MINISTER CONDEMN JEWISH CEMETERY VANDALISM [...] (U) Vandals tore down 22 monuments at a Jewish cemetery in Vilnius on June 24. President Valdas Adamkus, acting Prime Minister Zigmantas Balcytis, and Vilnius City mayor Arturas Zuokas publicly condemned the desecration and urged local law enforcement to find and punish the perpetrators. The [...] |
2006-07-05 13:08:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KNAR PHUM PGOV LH |
| 06VILNIUS637 |
LITHUANIA SEEKS TO LINK UP WITH POLISH AND SWEDISH [...] (C) SUMMARY: Plans to link Lithuania to the electricity grids of Poland and Sweden are moving forward, according to several well-placed sources. These links would complement the nearly complete Estonia-Finland power bridge and hook the Baltics into Western Europe's electricity grid for the fi [...] |
2006-07-07 11:39:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG ECON PREL PGOV LH PL SW |
| 06VILNIUS645 |
LITHUANIAN OIL REFINERY CONTINUES SEARCH FOR CRUDE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Well-placed GOL officials told us July 10 that Lithuania's Mazeikiu Nafta oil refinery (MN) was on the brink of signing a contract with TNK-BP to bring a shipment of crude from Primorsk via tanker to MN's Baltic Sea terminal. MN's general manager (protect) says that MN is still [...] |
2006-07-11 13:55:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET PREL ECON LH RU |
| 06VILNIUS663 |
LITHUANIA TO RAISE NEIGHBORHOOD ISSUES AT JULY 17 [...] (C) We delivered reftel points to Tomas Gulbinas, Head of the MFA's Common Foreign Policy and Security Division on July 14. Gulbinas told us that the July 17 GAERC will concentrate on the priorities of the Finnish Presidency as discussed in the EU political Director's July 6 meeting in Helsin [...] |
2006-07-14 14:15:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | UN KPAL PREL LH |
| 06VILNIUS67 |
AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH NEW LITHUANIAN PROSECUTOR [...] Ambassador Mull and Lithuania's new Prosecutor General Algimantas Valantinas agreed January 17 to continue close bilateral cooperation in law enforcement and legal assistance, particularly to surmounting problems that may arise in extradition cases. The Ambassador thanked Valantinas for his [...] |
2006-01-24 10:48:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV KNEI ASEC LG LH |
| 06VILNIUS671 |
GHOR, AFGHANISTAN: A LITHUANIAN VIEW [...] (C) Lithuania's MFA representative to the Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) in Ghor province, Afghanistan, Dainus Baublys, debriefed us on Lithuania's goals and challenges there. He told us that security was stable, as the PRT had good relations with the three local "warlords" who are (hel [...] |
2006-07-18 12:00:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL AF LH |
| 06VILNIUS675 |
LITHUANIA'S 14TH GOVERNMENT TAKES OFFICE AS [...] (SBU) Lithuania's parliament approved Prime Minister- designate Gediminas Kirkilas's government program and cabinet July 18 by a vote of 59 to 49. Support came from the coalition of 53 MPs with additional support from three Labor members and three Homeland Union (conservative) members in the [...] |
2006-07-18 13:12:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PINR LH |
| 06VILNIUS682 |
U.S.-LITHUANIA BILATERAL WORKING GROUP DISCUSSES [...] (SBU) Summary: During the annual Bilateral Working Group (BWG) meetings between the USG and Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia in Vilnius July 12-13, all three Baltic delegations carried a unified message on Baltic cooperation and Baltic air policing. In both the multilateral and bilateral fora, [...] |
2006-07-19 13:21:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL MARR MOPS AF LH |
| 06VILNIUS686 |
LITHUANIA SUPPORTS MOLDOVA IN CONFLICT RESOLUTION, [...] (C) Lithuania strongly supports the U.S. position on the Transnistrian referendum and will continue to raise Transnistria in its dialogue with Russian on frozen conflicts (reftel). Lithuania considers Moldova one of the primary focuses of its neighborhood policy, and has recently engaged both [...] |
2006-07-20 13:38:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | OSCE PBTS PREL LH MD |
| 06VILNIUS698 |
RUSSIA DENIES VISAS TO LITHUANIAN STUDENTS WISHING TO HONOR [...] (SBU) The Russian Embassy in Vilnius denied visas on July 21 to members of a local youth organization that planned to visit the Siberian graves of Soviet-era Lithuanian deportees. The Council of Lithuanian Youth Organizations (LiJOT) planned the expedition to the Krasnoyarsk region, where Sovi [...] |
2006-07-27 11:15:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM LH RU |
| 06VILNIUS705 |
LITHUANIAN AND BELARUSIAN AIR FORCE COMMANDERS [...] (C) Lithuanian Air Force Commander Arturas Leita invited Belarus's Air Force Commander Oleg Paferov to Lithuania to discuss an alleged June 19 border incursion by a Belarusian helicopter into Lithuanian territory, an event which Belarus denies. The Lithuanian side was seeking an explanation fo [...] |
2006-07-31 14:28:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PREL BO LH |
| 06VILNIUS707 |
LITHUANIA: FINNISH PRESIDENCY OK TO INVITE [...] No summary [...] |
2006-07-31 14:55:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM LH BU |
| 06VILNIUS711 |
REFINERY'S PROBLEMS UNLIKELY TO CAUSE ECONOMIC [...] (C) SUMMARY: The problems Lithuania's Mazeikiu Nafta oil refinery (MN) is facing in obtaining crude supplies are unlikely to cause a major economic crisis here, according to several public and private sector officials and analysts. Although the refinery is Lithuania's largest economic entity [...] |
2006-08-01 14:39:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG ECON PREL LH RU |
| 06VILNIUS727 |
LITHUANIA'S CHOICE: FIGHT OR SURRENDER ITS [...] (S) SUMMARY: Lithuania and its Mazeikiu Nafta (MN) oil refinery need to decide how to proceed, now that an "accident" has resulted in a complete cutoff in the refinery's pipeline-delivered supply of Russian crude. State Department Advisor Steve Hellman framed this issue for the Lithuanians d [...] |
2006-08-04 15:12:00 | Embassy Vilnius | SECRET | ENRG ECON PREL LH XG VE LY |
| 06VILNIUS739 |
LITHUANIA SEEKING TO EXPAND SUPPORT AND ASSISTANCE [...] (SBU) The GOL recently sponsored a pair of visits between Afghanistan and Lithuania aimed at shoring up support in both countries for its Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) in Ghor Province, Afghanistan. Ghor's Governor and a delegation of Afghan parliamentarians came to Vilnius for meetings [...] |
2006-08-09 09:05:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL LH AF |
| 06VILNIUS760 |
INVESTMENT PROSPECTING IN MAZAR-E-SHARIF, AFGHANISTAN: ONE [...] SUMMARY: An executive from one of Lithuania's largest companies visited Afghanistan in July to scout for business and investment opportunities. Part of a larger GOL delegation, he split from the group for a few days to visit a fertilizer factory in Mazar-e-Sharif that his company had assisted [...] |
2006-08-11 12:30:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EINV PREL ETRD LH AF |
| 06VILNIUS762 |
LITHUANIAN PM PUSHES UKRAINE'S YANUKOVICH ON EU, [...] (C) Lithuania's Prime Minister Gediminas Kirkilas interrupted his holidays August 10 to sell NATO, EU and WTO integration to Ukraine's newly appointed PM Victor Yanukovich. MFA officials present for the meeting called Yanukovich's "open" reaction to their points on EU and, especially, NATO in [...] |
2006-08-11 14:17:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL LH UP |
| 06VILNIUS773 |
LITHUANIA WILL MAKE MODEST CONTRIBUTION TO UNIFIL, [...] (U) Classified by Ambassador John A. Cloud for reasons 1.4 (b) and (d). 2. (C) On the margins of the Ambassador's presentation of credentials ceremony August 17, top Lithuanian foreign policy planners expressed Lithuania's willingness in some way to contribute to UNIFIL. Ambassador delive [...] |
2006-08-17 14:39:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MOPS PREL LE LH |
| 06VILNIUS787 |
LITHUANIA FOLLOWING KOSOVO STATUS NEGOTIATIONS [...] No summary [...] |
2006-08-23 08:05:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UN UNMIK PGOV YI LH |
| 06VILNIUS789 |
PM AND FM UNDECIDED ON LEBANON; SEE OPPORTUNITY TO [...] (U) Classified by Ambassador John A. Cloud for reasons 1.4 (b) and (d). 2. (C) SUMMARY: PM Kirkilas and FM Vaitiekunas both told the Ambassador in initial courtesy calls that Lithuania's likely contribution to UNIFIL would be small, given its commitments in Afghanistan and Iraq. They said [...] |
2006-08-23 12:37:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS PHUM ENRG ECON LE LH |
| 06VILNIUS793 |
LITHUANIA'S FINAL ANSWER: NO TROOPS TO UNIFIL [...] (U) Classified By: Pol/Econ Chief Rebecca Dunham for reasons 1.4 (b) and (d). 2. (C) Lithuania will not be making troop contributions to the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL), despite earlier indications of its serious desire to do so. Lithuania's Ministers of Foreign Affairs [...] |
2006-08-24 13:41:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MOPS PREL LH LE |
| 06VILNIUS803 |
LITHUANIA WILL STICK TO EU GUIDANCE ON RICE [...] (C) Zenonas Stanevicius, Deputy Director of the State Food and Veterinary Service (SFVS), told us August 25 that Lithuania will adhere strictly to any EU guidelines regarding genetically engineered products, including rice. He said that U.S.-produced rice amounted to slightly less then one pe [...] |
2006-08-28 12:30:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | EAGR ECON ETRD TBIO KPAO LH |
| 06VILNIUS806 |
LITHUANIA UNAWARE OF CHANGES TO EU DATA PROTECTION REGIME [...] No summary [...] |
2006-08-29 08:31:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR PTER LH |
| 06VILNIUS813 |
LITHUANIA'S LABOR PARTY: UNDER NEW LEADERSHIP? [...] (C) Summary: The Labor Party, recently fallen from power amid scandal, elected former Economy Minister Kestutis Dauksys its new leader August 26. Dauksys called for changes to the way Labor runs itself, but continued publicly to link the party to its disgraced former leader. It seems clear [...] |
2006-08-31 14:37:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV LH |
| 06VILNIUS814 |
SUBJECT LINE [...] (S) Lithuanian officials do not believe that Belarusian authorities were behind the death of Lithuanian diplomat Vytautas Pociunas. Pociunas, who worked as a security advisor to the Lithuanian consulate in Grodno, was found dead following a fall from the ninth-story window of an Inturist hote [...] |
2006-09-01 13:46:00 | Embassy Vilnius | SECRET | PREL BO LH |
| 06VILNIUS815 |
(S) GOL WITHHOLDING JUDGEMENT ON DEATH OF [...] (S) Lithuanian officials do not believe that Belarusian authorities were behind the death of Lithuanian diplomat Vytautas Pociunas. Pociunas, who worked as a security advisor to the Lithuanian consulate in Grodno, was found dead following a fall from the ninth-story window of an Inturist hote [...] |
2006-09-01 14:10:00 | Embassy Vilnius | SECRET | PREL BO LH |
| 06VILNIUS818 |
LITHUANIAN DEFENSE UNDER SECRETARY ON BALTIC [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: MOD Under Secretary Renatas Norkus gave the Ambassador areadout of the recent Baltic Defense Ministers' meeting and a sketch of his plans for his upcoming visit to Washington during a meeting September 1. The Baltic Defense Ministers agreed they would try to encourage NATO to [...] |
2006-09-05 13:55:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MOPS MARR PREL AF LG EN LH |
| 06VILNIUS82 |
VILNIUS'S LAW ENFORCEMENT RESPONSE TO INFLUX OF [...] This is the first cable in a two-part series detailing efforts law enforcement in Lithuania's capital of Vilnius are taking to meet the increased demand upon its services by a burgeoning tourist industry, and a review of Vilnius's local criminal justice facilities. 2. Summary. More touri [...] |
2006-01-26 11:42:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | CASC CMGT KCRM PGOV LH |
| 06VILNIUS83 |
A VIEW FROM BEHIND BARS: VILNIUS'S LUKISKES [...] This is the second cable in a two-part series detailing efforts law enforcement in Lithuania's capital of Vilnius is taking to meet the increased demand upon its services by a burgeoning tourist industry, and a review of Vilnius's local criminal justice facilities. 2. Summary. Lithuania [...] |
2006-01-26 12:41:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | CASC CMGT CPAS PGOV LH |
| 06VILNIUS84 |
GOL ACKNOWLEDGES U.S. ASSISTANCE TO AFGHANISTAN [...] No summary [...] |
2006-01-26 13:47:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREL PGOV AF LH |
| 06VILNIUS850 |
EUR DAS PEKALA'S VISIT TO LITHUANIA: ENERGY, [...] (C) Summary. During DAS Mark Pekala's September 8 visit to Vilnius, the foreign policy advisors to the President and Prime Minister, the MFA's State Secretary, the leader of the opposition, and the Vice Minister of Economy outlined Lithuania's main foreign policy concerns. Our interlocutors [...] |
2006-09-14 10:48:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ENRG LH BO |
| 06VILNIUS852 |
SEPTEMBER GAERC AND LITHUANIAN VIEWS ON GYMNICH [...] (C) We delivered reftel points September 13 to Tomas Gulbinas, head of MFA's Common Foreign Policy and Security Division who is responsible for briefing the FM for the GAERC. Gulbinas said that the Lithuanian FM does not plan any interventions in the September 15 GAERC, which focuses on issue [...] |
2006-09-14 13:00:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL LH EUN RS UP |
| 06VILNIUS88 |
LITHUANIA: FAVORABLE PRESS FOR RICE-CHERTOFF OPEN [...] SUMMARY: Post actively publicized the January 17 Rice- Chertoff announcement on America's initiatives to welcome tourists, students and business travelers. The Lithuanian media reacted quickly and favorably. Keying off a detailed press release, national radio interviewed the PAO and played [...] |
2006-02-02 07:52:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO CMGT PREL CVIS LH |
| 06VILNIUS891 |
RUMORS CONTINUE TO SWIRL ABOUT THE FATE OF [...] (C) SUMMARY: Rumors about the fate of Lithuania's Mazeikiu Nafta (MN) oil refinery continue to circulate. Most of them appear false. A front-page article in Lithuania's largest newspaper proclaiming that MN was "sliding again into Moscow's hands" was a near-total fabrication, according to o [...] |
2006-09-26 14:55:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG EPET PREL KZ VE LH |
| 06VILNIUS902 |
LITHUANIA SEIZES GENETICALLY MODIFIED RICE [...] (U) Local press reported September 28 that Lithuanian officials had seized 880 kg of U.S.-exported rice, part of a shipment that the EU identified as containing genetically modified (GM) rice. This shipment arrived in Belgium and was then broken up and sent to other EU countries, including Lit [...] |
2006-09-28 13:47:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ECON LH |
| 06VILNIUS909 |
UPDATE ON SNIPISKES CEMETERY [...] (C) Post continues to seek a solution to the controversy over possible new development of the old Jewish cemetery site in the Snipiskes area of Vilnius (ref A). In recent months, a new governing coalition and stepped-up efforts by the city's mayor to develop the site have led the Embassy to l [...] |
2006-10-04 08:23:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | SCUL PREL LH |
| 06VILNIUS922 |
LITHUANIAN FOREIGN POLICY GURU QUITS AMID PRESS [...] (C) Summary. The surprise resignation on September 29 of one of Lithuania's most influential foreign policy figures has shaken the Foreign Ministry. MFA Undersecretary Albinas Januska, long considered the Ministry's most influential official, has close ties to Lithuania's security services an [...] |
2006-10-06 12:42:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV LH |
| 06VILNIUS939 |
LARGE FIRE BLAZES AT LITHUANIA'S OIL REFINERY [...] (U) Local press reported on October 12 that a fire had broken out at Lithuania's Mazeikiu Nafta oil refinery (MN) at approximately 1430 local time. The report said that the fire was "very big" and that it could be seen from several kilometers away. The report also said, however, that only on [...] |
2006-10-12 14:12:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG EPET PREL LH RS |
| 06VILNIUS944 |
PROSECUTORS AND GOL WILL INVESTIGATE CAUSE OF [...] No summary [...] |
2006-10-13 12:48:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG EPET PREL LH RS PL |
| 06VILNIUS945 |
PLANS FOR SNIPISKES CEMETERY - A CHANCE FOR [...] (C) Summary: The GOL's working group on the Snipiskes cemetery recently finished its work and submitted its conclusions to the Prime Minister. At the group's recommendation, the Prime Minister issued a decree calling for the establishment of a committee of experts to research the boundaries [...] |
2006-10-13 13:42:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | SCUL PREL LH |
| 06VILNIUS946 |
LITHUANIA OUTLINES BELARUS POLICY, ASSISTANCE [...] (C) Summary. Lithuanian activism in support of reform in Belarus continues. In EU structures, Lithuania argues for an exception for Belarus to the anticipated 60-euro Schengen visa fee, encourages smarter spending of Commission money to support democratic forces in Belarus, and will possibly [...] |
2006-10-13 15:02:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL LH BO |
| 06VILNIUS952 |
LITHUANIAN FM ADVOCATES PATIENCE TO GEORGIA, MAKES [...] (C) Summary. Lithuania's Foreign Minister Vaitiekunas visited Georgia October 12 to pitch the Georgians on a strategy of de-escalation in order to garner international support for their positions in territorial conflicts while easing current tensions with Russia. Vaitiekunas relied on his tr [...] |
2006-10-18 13:41:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL LH GG EUN |
| 06VILNIUS962 |
LITHUANIAN REFINERY FIRE LOOKS LIKE ACCIDENT [...] (C) Summary: There is no evidence yet to suggest that the October 12 fire at Lithuania's oil refinery was anything other than an unfortunate accident. Five different investigations into the blaze continue. The fire will delay finalization of the purchase of the refinery by Poland's PKN Orle [...] |
2006-10-20 14:06:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG EPET PREL LH RS PL |
| 06VILNIUS969 |
LITHUANIA PLEASED WITH ENERGY TALK AT LAHTI SUMMIT [...] (C) Summary. President Adamkus's silence at the October 20 EU-Putin dinner notwithstanding, Lithuania was pleased that EU leaders reached a stronger consensus on external energy policy. Lithuanian officials believe that Putin's comments on Georgia may help them build sympathy for the Georgia [...] |
2006-10-25 13:05:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EUN LH RS GG |
| 06VILNIUS98 |
AMBASSADOR STRESSES CIVIL SOCIETY AND TOLERANCE IN PANEVEZYS [...] SUMMARY: Ambassador Mull traveled to Panevezys, Lithuanias fifth largest city, on January 19 to congratulate local officials on their successful efforts to combat crime, lower unemployment, and develop local industry. At the same time, the Ambassador expressed concern over the emigration of t [...] |
2006-02-02 08:12:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO PGOV LH |
| 06VILNIUS982 |
LITHUANIA RECEIVES LETTERS OF SUPPORT ON ENERGY [...] (C) During his October 24 meeting with the Ambassador (reftel), MFA Political Director Zygimantas Pavilionis mentioned two recent letters addressing energy issues: an October 19 letter from EC President Barroso to President Adamkus and a September 25 letter from EC Energy Commissioner Piebalgs [...] |
2006-10-31 11:57:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ENRG EUN LH RS |
| 06VILNIUS988 |
BLUE LANTERN PRE-LICENSE CHECK 05-1007717: HELISOTA AND [...] (U) This report contains business-sensitive information. Please protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) We visited the premises of Helisota Ltd. on October 16 and met with the company's Director General (Josif Legenzov), Production Manager (Vaclovas Kliunka), Director of International Sales (Anatoli [...] |
2006-11-03 11:05:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETTC KOMC LH UK EZ |
| 06WARSAW1314 |
GOP REQUESTS US CONTACT SLOVAK GOVERNMENT ABOUT [...] (C) This cable contains an action request, para 2. (C) Summary: During a meeting with visiting S/P Director Stephen Krasner, officials at the Ministry of Economy requested U.S. assistance in contacting the government of Slovakia about Polish interest in acquiring from Yukos its 49 perc [...] |
2006-06-28 13:59:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG EPET PL UR RS KZ LH LO EZ PGOV |
| 06WARSAW1592 |
DEPARTMENT ENERGY ADVISER HELLMAN'S ENERGY [...] (C) Economics Ministry State Secretary Piotr Naimski told visiting State Department Energy Advisor Steve Hellman August 1 that Poland is very concerned by the cut-off of Russian oil shipments to Lithuania's Mazeikiu Nafta refinery due to alleged 'accidents and technical difficulties.' The Pole [...] |
2006-08-04 08:59:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG EPET LH PL PREL |
| 06WARSAW2008 |
POLAND'S PKN ORLEN DISCUSSES MAZEIKIU NAFTA, [...] (C) PKN Orlen's (PKNO) Deputy President Cezary Filipowicz requested information from the USG on whether Yukos International is considering a proposal to put the Mazeikiu Nafta (MN) refinery shares into escrow to further protect them from Yukos Finance. Poland is attempting to gain support fr [...] |
2006-09-15 14:21:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG ECON ETRD PL AJ KZ RS ES LG LH PREL |
| 06WARSAW2199 |
POLAND WAITING FOR ANSWERS ON MAZEIKIU FIRE [...] (C) Cezary Filipowicz, PKN Orlen (PKNO) Deputy President told Deputy Econ Counselor that while he can't say with 100 percent certainty that the PKNO purchase of Mazeikiu Nafta oil refinery (MN) will proceed following the October 12 fire, it is PKNO's intention to complete the purchase. A tea [...] |
2006-10-13 15:49:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG EPET PREL LH RS PO |
| 06WARSAW980 |
POLAND'S ORLEN ANXIOUS FOR COURT DECISION IT CAN [...] (C) Summary: PKN Orlen's Wojciech Wroblewski, told us that PKN Orlen is waiting for U.S. court approval of the sale by YUKOS of its controlling stake in the Mazeikiu refinery for the purchase to go through. PKN Orlen aggressively pursued the sale both as a strategic asset and as a way to b [...] |
2006-05-25 15:16:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG ECON EPET PREL PGOV ETRD LH PL RS KZ |
| 07BAKU1227 |
PRESIDENT ALIYEV ON ENERGY ISSUES IN ADVANCE OF [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a one-hour one-on-one meeting with the Ambassador on October 8, President Aliyev outlined with frustration current problems on energy in advance of the Vilnius Summit. British Petroleum (BP) is "stealing our oil," he asserted sharply, seeking to put pressure on Azerbaijan to delay t [...] |
2007-10-09 14:14:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG PREL PGOV RS TU UP KZ PL GG LH TX AJ |
| 07STATE18563 |
DEMARCHE REQUEST ON ICELANDIC PEACEKEEPERS IN PRT [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified, protect accordingly. SUMMARY AND ACTION REQUEST --------------------------------------------- 2. (SBU) Department requests that addressee embassies demarche host governments requesting that they urge Iceland to keep its mobile patrol team in PRT Chaghch [...] |
2007-02-14 19:37:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MARR PREL PGOV IC AF LH DA HR UK CA NATO |
| 07STATE18578 |
DEMARCHE REQUEST ON ICELANDIC PEACEKEEPERS IN PRT [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified, protect accordingly. SUMMARY AND ACTION REQUEST --------------------------------------------- 2. (SBU) Department requests that addressee embassies demarche host governments requesting that they urge Iceland to keep its mobile patrol team in PRT Chaghch [...] |
2007-02-14 19:56:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MARR PREL PGOV IC AF LH DA HR UK CA NATO |
| 07STATE38563 |
GUIDANCE FOR LONDON AND WARSAW IRAQ CONSULTATIONS [...] (C) Department instructs an interagency delegation led by NEA Deputy Assistant Secretary Amb. Lawrence Butler to participate in the March 29 UK Partners meeting and in bilateral talks with Poland on March 30. For Poland, reftel guidance from bilateral talks in August remain valid to ensure Pol [...] |
2007-03-27 01:52:00 | Secretary of State | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MOPS PREL IZ RO LH |
| 07TALLINN227 |
ESTONIA'S VIEW ON POLISH PARTICIPATION IN IGNALINA [...] (C) Based on our recent discussions with key officials in Estonia's energy sector, it is clear that Estonia is open to the idea of Polish participation in the Ignalina nuclear power project. However, GOE and Eesti Energia officials have expressed concern to us about the Lithuanian approach t [...] |
2007-04-04 06:17:00 | Embassy Tallinn | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG ECON LG LH PL EN |
| 07TALLINN277 |
U.S.-BALTIC RELATIONS REMAIN STRONG: U.S.-BALTICS [...] (U) Summary. The Government of Estonia (GOE) hosted the U.S.-Baltic Multilateral and Bilateral Working Group Meeting in Tallinn on April 10-12. At the multilateral working group meetings, the key issues discussed were the future of the NATO Air Policing mission, international operations (in [...] |
2007-04-26 15:09:00 | Embassy Tallinn | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MOPS NATO PGOV PREL LG LH EN |
| 07TALLINN278 |
U.S.-BALTIC RELATIONS REMAIN STRONG: U.S.-BALTICS [...] (U) Summary. The Government of Estonia (GOE) hosted the U.S.-Baltic Multilateral and Bilateral Working Group Meeting in Tallinn on April 10-12. At the multilateral working group meetings, the key issues discussed were the future of the NATO Air Policing mission, international operations (in [...] |
2007-04-26 15:09:00 | Embassy Tallinn | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MOPS NATO PGOV PREL LG LH EN |
| 07VILNIUS123 |
ADDITIONAL DESIGNATIONS OF IRANIAN ENTITIES [...] (SBU) Post delivered reftel list of entities designated under E.O. 13382 to Donatas Ziugzda, Head of the Arms Control, Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Division of the MFA. Ziugzda once again thanked the USG for providing this information in a timely basis. He assured post that the list wou [...] |
2007-02-22 14:14:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KNNP KN PARM IR LH |
| 07VILNIUS129 |
LITHUANIA SANGUINE ABOUT ICELANDIC PEACEKEEPER [...] (C) We met with Ambassador-at-Large Gediminas Serksnys February 20 to encourage the GOL to demarche Iceland against the withdrawal of its mobile patrol team from Afghanistan at the end of April 2007. Serksnys expressed only mild disappointment at the loss of the Mobile Liaison Observation Tea [...] |
2007-02-23 13:39:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MOPS PREL IC AF LH DA HR UK CA NATO |
| 07VILNIUS13 |
LITHUANIA STRUGGLING TO MEET SCHENGEN REQUIREMENTS [...] (C) Summary. Lithuania is in a race to meet Schengen requirements by early 2008, the anticipated date of Schengen expansion. Despite a contracting and spending spree in December 2006, Lithuania will struggle to meet the early 2008 deadline for implementation of Schengen requirements at its [...] |
2007-01-08 10:01:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EUN LH |
| 07VILNIUS142 |
RUSSIA: LITHUANIA'S FAVORITE ANXIETY [...] (C) Summary. Lithuania's relationship with Russia continues to affect Lithuania's foreign policy and much of its domestic politics. Fifteen years after independence, Lithuania is still a teenager, struggling -- sometimes rashly -- to demonstrate its independence. Nevertheless, most Lithuani [...] |
2007-02-28 10:26:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL LH RU EUN |
| 07VILNIUS167 |
SNIPISKES CEMETERY UPDATE: NEW DIGGING CAUSES [...] (C) SUMMARY. The sudden appearance of heavy machinery and a large new hole in the area of a former Jewish cemetery burst into the media the week of March 5. The media attention to a scuffle involving a local rabbi may turn out to be a silver lining to an otherwise terrible incident: other mem [...] |
2007-03-09 15:37:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SCUL LH |
| 07VILNIUS172 |
LITHUANIA: ADEQUATE PLANS FOR AVIAN INFLUENZA [...] SUMMARY. The Government of Lithuania (GOL) has had plans for combating Avian Influenza (AI) since 2005. The GOL has taken several steps to prepare for or detect AI including exercises, avian livestock management, and testing of dead birds. There has been extensive inter-departmental cooperati [...] |
2007-03-13 15:03:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | KFLU TBIO LH |
| 07VILNIUS191 |
STATE SECURITY CHIEF'S RESIGNATION: IT AIN'T OVER [...] (C) Summary: A March 15 parliamentary vote rejected the resignation of State Security chief Arvydas Pocius, despite a previous decision by the same body that he was not capable of doing the job. Pocius remains in the job, but his position is weak and probably untenable. End Summary. 2. ( [...] |
2007-03-16 15:50:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV LH |
| 07VILNIUS194 |
LITHUANIA ON ZIMBABWE [...] No summary [...] |
2007-03-20 14:56:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PHUM LH |
| 07VILNIUS214 |
LITHUANIA SUPPORTS SANCTIONS ON IRAN [...] No summary [...] |
2007-03-26 14:43:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM EFIN KNNP IAEA MNUC TRGY AORC UNSC LH |
| 07VILNIUS217 |
LITHUANIA ASKS FOR HELP WITH THE OECD ENTRY PROCESS [...] (C) Summary: MFA Undersecretary Zygmimantas Pavilionis summoned the Ambassador on March 26 to complain that the USG was not promoting Lithuania's candidacy for the OECD. Pavilionis said that Lithuanian President Adamkus would press for Lithuanian entry during an upcoming visit to Paris. He s [...] |
2007-03-27 10:34:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECIN OECD EUN LH |
| 07VILNIUS219 |
LITHUANIA AGREES WITH GYMNICH TALKING POINTS [...] (C) SUMMARY: We delivered reftel points to Gediminas Kasputis of the MFA's Common Foreign and Security Policy Division on March 28. Kasputis said that the GOL's positions were nearly identical to our positions. Kasputis asked for clarification on several points, and gave details on Lithuania [...] |
2007-03-27 14:37:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | EUN KPAL PREL XG IS IR ZI LH BO |
| 07VILNIUS221 |
LITHUANIA SUPPORTS SWIFT IMPLEMENTATION OF UNSCR [...] No summary [...] |
2007-03-28 10:19:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM EFIN ETTC KNNP IR LH |
| 07VILNIUS233 |
POINTS DELIVERED TO LITHUANIA ON DESIGNATION OF [...] No summary [...] |
2007-04-03 08:22:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KNNP PARM KN IR LH |
| 07VILNIUS234 |
HAVANA AND MADRID PRESS LITHUANIA TO ESTABLISH [...] (C) Lithuania continues to receive pressure, both from within the European Union and from the Castro regime itself, to establish diplomatic relations with Cuba. 2. (C) MFA Americas Division Director Jonas Paslauskas told CDA April 2 that Spain's AMB Fidel Lopez Alvarez demarched the GOL [...] |
2007-04-04 11:53:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL CU LH |
| 07VILNIUS239 |
LITHUANIA SEEKS TO CORONATE A NATIONAL ENERGY [...] (C) Summary: The GOL has promulgated a draft law that outlines Lithuania's participation in the construction and operation of a new nuclear power plant. The legislation, which requires parliamentary approval, calls for the merger of three energy companies to create a national energy champion [...] |
2007-04-05 11:49:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG PREL ECON EUN XG LH |
| 07VILNIUS243 |
PROTECTING THE INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS OF SOVIET [...] Summary: A dispute over the right of Soviet-era artists to profit from their work has generated an intriguing dispute that threatens to damage a satirical amusement park cheekily referred to as "Stalin World." The case raises several interesting legal and moral questions and has helped raise [...] |
2007-04-06 09:22:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON KIPR ETRD PGOV LH |
| 07VILNIUS244 |
BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 3: PRE-LICENSE END-USE CHECK ON [...] (U) This report contains business-sensitive information. Please protect accordingly. Previous site visit ------------------- 2. (SBU) We visited Helisota Ltd. on October 16, 2006 to conduct a Blue Lantern check for a different application, reporting our results in ref B. Per ref C inst [...] |
2007-04-06 11:31:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETTC KOMC EZ UK LH |
| 07VILNIUS247 |
GUANTANAMO REFUGEES: LITHUANIA FAVORABLY DISPOSED [...] (U) This is an action request. See para five. 2. (C) Following up on his conversation with the Ambassador (ref a), MFA Under Secretary Pavilionis told CDA April 3 that the GOL has made the political decision to accept a small number of detainees from the Guantanamo facility as requested [...] |
2007-04-06 15:47:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PHUM PINR KAWC LH |
| 07VILNIUS25 |
LITHUANIA ON IRAN: SUPPORTING DEMOCRACY WITHOUT [...] (C) We delivered ref A points to Jurate Ramoskiene, First Secretary in the MFA's Africa and Middle East Division, on SIPDIS January 11. She said that the GOL is "absolutely" supportive of a "two-dimensional approach" to Iran, including both sanctions and pro-democracy efforts. She said t [...] |
2007-01-11 17:07:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM KPAO PREL IR LH PL |
| 07VILNIUS271 |
LITHUANIA: WMO SHOULD REMAIN WEATHER-FOCUSED [...] No summary [...] |
2007-04-17 06:32:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV TPHY LH |
| 07VILNIUS275 |
LITHUANIA ON ICI: GOL'S AMB TO EGYPT WILL [...] No summary [...] |
2007-04-18 14:26:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID EFIN PGOV PREL UN IZ LH |
| 07VILNIUS277 |
LITHUANIA ON GAERC: CONCERNS ABOUT RUSSIA [...] (C) Summary. Lithuania's priority at the April 23-24 GAERC will be to suggest postponing the cooperation agreement with Russia until the GOR explains the Druzhba pipeline closure. The FM will also intervene to discuss his recent trip to Central Asia and to discuss the US-EU Summit declaratio [...] |
2007-04-20 16:13:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPAL ETRD EPET EUN LH |
| 07VILNIUS281 |
LITHUANIA: READY FOR NATO HLG MAY 3 MEETING [...] No summary [...] |
2007-04-23 14:17:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV NATO MNUC NPG LH |
| 07VILNIUS284 |
LITHUANIA ON ICI: UPDATED ATTENDANCE [...] No summary [...] |
2007-04-24 14:29:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID EFIN PGOV PREL UN IZ LH |
| 07VILNIUS289 |
LITHUANIA AGREES SAMOA SHOULD GRADUATE FROM LDC [...] No summary [...] |
2007-04-26 15:33:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ECON AORC LH WS |
| 07VILNIUS290 |
PAKSAS'S PARTY WINS VILNIUS MAYORSHIP [...] (C) SUMMARY. The new mayor of Vilnius is Juozas Imbrasas, a strong supporter of impeached ex-president Rolandas Paksas and member of the Paksas-led Liberal Democratic Party. His election is a first step toward re-establishing Paksas and his party as significant political players. End Summary. [...] |
2007-04-26 15:36:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR LH |
| 07VILNIUS306 |
LITHUANIAN PLANS TO EXTEND IGNALINA NUCLEAR POWER [...] (C) Summary: The GOL may ask the EU to approve extending the life of Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant's (INPP) second unit, which is scheduled to be shut down no later than December 31, 2009 in accordance with Lithuania's EU accession treaty. (Note: Unit One was shut down in 2004.) The GOL and [...] |
2007-05-02 14:44:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG PREL ECON EUN XG LH |
| 07VILNIUS309 |
LITHUANIAN PARTICIPATION IN THE NEW WAY FORWARD IN [...] (C) We have been working intensely with the GOL to maintain the Lithuanian troop presence in Multinational Division South East (MND-SE) since the February announcements of British and Danish troop drawdowns from Basra. Following what appeared to be internal wrangling over what Lithuania's nex [...] |
2007-05-03 08:57:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MASS MOPS PREL PTER IZ LH |
| 07VILNIUS312 |
DETAINEE RESETTLEMENT CABLES FOLLOW-UP INFORMATION [...] (S) Summary: Lithuania remains interested in pursuing detainee resettlement, but is still waiting for answers from the USG before it can proceed. This message provides answers to questions posed in ref A. End Summary. 2. (SBU) As requested ref A, post designates Michael Dickerson as POC [...] |
2007-05-03 14:56:00 | Embassy Vilnius | SECRET | PTER PINR LH |
| 07VILNIUS322 |
LITHUANIA MAY INTERVENE ON MOLDOVA AT MAY 14 GAERC [...] (C) Summary: Lithuania may intervene at the May 14 GAERC on Moldova. The GOL sees little chance of making progress towards a Partnership and Cooperation Agreement with Russia given the current climate. They have suspicions that the secretive negotiations concluded between Russia and Moldova [...] |
2007-05-09 13:32:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EUN ETRD KPAL LH RS MD |
| 07VILNIUS323 |
CITES: LITHUANIA FOLLOWING EU LEAD, EXCEPT ON EELS [...] No summary [...] |
2007-05-09 14:35:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD KSCA SENV LH |
| 07VILNIUS330 |
LITHUANIA WILL NOT SUPPORT BELARUS FOR HRC SEAT [...] No summary [...] |
2007-05-10 15:28:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM LH BO SI BK |
| 07VILNIUS331 |
LITHUANIA AGAINST BELARUS FOR HRC; MIXED ON BOSNIA [...] (C) We delivered ref A and B points to Darius Staniulis, head of the MFA's Human Rights and NGOs Division, on May 10. He said the GOL opposes Belarus's bid to become a member of the HRC. He characterized as "very unlikely" the prospect that Belarus would succeed, and noted the recent UNGA res [...] |
2007-05-11 11:14:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL LH BO |
| 07VILNIUS332 |
LITHUANIA ON THE ANNUAL WORLD HEALTH ASSEMBLY [...] No summary [...] |
2007-05-11 11:18:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KFLU TBIO AORC LH |
| 07VILNIUS333 |
LITHUANIA SUPPORTS ESTONIA BUT MAY 9 PASSES [...] Summary: Lithuanians have been speaking up about Russian policies in many ways following the violence in Tallinn surrounding Estonia's decision to move the Bronze Soldier monument and demonstrations outside the Estonian Embassy in Moscow. The events have tapped a deep reserve of anti-Russian [...] |
2007-05-11 14:41:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ZB RS LH |
| 07VILNIUS359 |
LITHUANIA AGREES WORLD ORGANIZATION FOR ANIMAL [...] No summary [...] |
2007-05-21 14:36:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL EAGR LH |
| 07VILNIUS360 |
LITHUANIA SUPPORTS BROAD SANCTIONS ON IRAN [...] No summary [...] |
2007-05-21 14:39:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PARM ETTC UNSC LH |
| 07VILNIUS361 |
LITHUANIA SUPPORTS UNSCR 1267'S CT GOALS [...] No summary [...] |
2007-05-21 14:41:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER UNSC EFIN LH |
| 07VILNIUS362 |
DIP NOTE RECEIVED: U.S.-LITHUANIA CULTURAL [...] The Embassy received a Diplomatic Note dated May 10, 2007 with the following text: COMPLIMENTARY OPENING with reference to the Embassy's note No. 117/06 dated 23 October 2006 and in accordance with the Agreement between the Government of the Republic of Lithuania and the Government of the [...] |
2007-05-21 14:48:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL SCUL LH |
| 07VILNIUS379 |
SNIPISKES CEMETERY UPDATE: EXPERTS' GROUP MEETINGS [...] (C) SUMMARY. International and Lithuanian experts issued a unanimous statement on May 17 warning that current construction almost certainly falls within the confines of the old Jewish cemetery in the Snipiskes neighborhood of Vilnius. They called for more study and a halt of construction unt [...] |
2007-05-25 15:11:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SCUL LH |
| 07VILNIUS393 |
LITHUANIAN DEFENSE MINISTER REQUESTS HELP IN [...] (C) On May 28, Ambassador Cloud and Defense Attache met with Lithuanian Minister of Defense Juozas Olekas (other issues discussed to be provided septel). Olekas requested U.S. help in getting Lithuanian Joint Tactical Air Controllers (JTAC) certified by NATO. He said that some of Lithuania's [...] |
2007-06-01 11:36:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MOPS PREL PGOV EAID LH AF |
| 07VILNIUS395 |
ANTI-GAY RALLY IN VILNIUS DRAWS EU'S ATTENTION [...] (U) Summary: An anti-homosexual rally in downtown Vilnius on May 25, originally planned to coincide with a pro-diversity rally, drew a small, non-violent crowd. The City of Vilnius' decision to prevent the European Commission-sponsored pro-diversity and gay pride rally from taking place has [...] |
2007-06-01 14:43:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM LH |
| 07VILNIUS401 |
(C) LITHUANIAN DEFENSE MINISTER CONFIRMS DRAW-DOWN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Ambassador Cloud reiterated the U.S. preference that the GOL leave a platoon of troops in Iraq to Lithuanian Defense Minister Juozas Olekas on May 28. Olekas said that, after deliberations with President Adamkus and FM Vaitiekunas, the GOL has decided to keep some staff officers [...] |
2007-06-04 15:00:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MOPS PREL PGOV EAID LH |
| 07VILNIUS438 |
(C) LITHUANIA TO INTERVENE ON NEIGHBORHOOD POLICY [...] (C) Summary: Lithuania plans to intervene on neighborhood policy at the June 18-19 GAERC. The GOL is happy with the German Presidency's handling of this issue, but still has some points to add to the conclusions. Lithuania expects a shortened period of discussion for all agenda items to save [...] |
2007-06-13 11:06:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | EUN ENRG ETRD ETTC KPAL PARM PGOV PREL LH |
| 07VILNIUS449 |
(C) LITHUANIA MAY PLACE CAVEAT ON FORCES DEPLOYING [...] (C) SUMMARY: Lithuania may be forced to place a caveat related to Close Air Support on special forces personnel scheduled to deploy to Afghanistan in July. Lithuania does not have Joint Terminal Air Controllers (JTACs) who are certified for NATO air-to-ground operations. DAO and ODC are work [...] |
2007-06-15 13:51:00 | Embassy Vilnius | SECRET | MOPS MARR MCAP AF LH |
| 07VILNIUS467 |
NEW HEAD OF LITHUANIA'S STATE SECURITY DEPARTMENT [...] (U) SUMMARY. President Adamkus signelQXbVQw77u candidacy on June 5. END SUMMARY. Bio Note -------- 2. (C) Malakauskas has been a close embassy contact for several years. Since 2004, he has been head of Lithuania,s Special Investigations Service (Lithuanian acronym STT). He is intell [...] |
2007-06-27 10:08:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV LH |
| 07VILNIUS47 |
LITHUANIA'S PLANS FOR GAERC: ENERGY AND [...] (C) Summary. Lithuania's Foreign Minister plans to intervene at the January 22-23 GAERC on European Neighborhood Policy (ENP) and external energy policy. The GOL supports the UN envoy in Kosovo and agrees that strengthening sanctions and promoting democracy are both needed in Iran. End Summa [...] |
2007-01-19 15:59:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ENRG EAID EUN LH |
| 07VILNIUS494 |
DETAINEE ISSUE ON TRACK [...] (S) MFA Under Secretary Zygimantas Pavilionis told the Ambassador on July 3 that Lithuania remains willing to accept some detainees from the Guantanamo Bay Detention Center. Pavilionis said that things were going smoothly. The only reason the process has slowed down is that the MFA needs to b [...] |
2007-07-05 09:06:00 | Embassy Vilnius | SECRET | PTER PINR LH |
| 07VILNIUS499 |
LITHUANIA WELCOMES UPDATE OF UNSCRS 1737 AND 1747 [...] No summary [...] |
2007-07-09 11:53:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM EFIN KNNP LH IR |
| 07VILNIUS503 |
LITHUANIA: PROS MAY OUTWEIGH CONS OF COMPROMISE ON [...] No summary [...] |
2007-07-10 06:47:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM LH |
| 07VILNIUS511 |
LITHUANIA DECIDES TO KEEP PLATOON IN IRAQ, WILL [...] (C) Summary: On July 9, President Adamkus told the Ambassador that Lithuania will meet its commitments in Iraq. He explained that decisions by the Danes and the British to reduce their presence in MNF-southeast forced the Lithuanians to do some restructuring of their presence. President Adamku [...] |
2007-07-12 07:27:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MOPS MARR IZ LH |
| 07VILNIUS519 |
LITHUANIAN FM TO SPEAK ABOUT WTO AND KOSOVO AT [...] (C) We delivered reftel points to Vyta Naujokaityte of the MFA's Common Foreign and Security Policy Division. Naujokaityte told us that FM Petras Vaitiekunas's briefing book is still being prepared for the July 23 GAERC. He plans to make a short statement about Kosovo and the WTO. 2. (C) N [...] |
2007-07-17 12:24:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | EUN ENRG ETRD ETTC KPAL PGOV PREL SOCI LH |
| 07VILNIUS529 |
LITHUANIA: PRESIDENT WILL ATTEND UNGA [...] No summary [...] |
2007-07-25 14:15:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KSEP OVIP UNGA LH |
| 07VILNIUS531 |
LITHUANIA AGREES HUMAN RIGHTS IN AZERBAIJIN [...] No summary [...] |
2007-07-26 09:00:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM OSCE AJ LH |
| 07VILNIUS532 |
LITHUANIA HAPPY TO LEARN ABOUT USG'S IOM CANDIDATE [...] No summary [...] |
2007-07-26 12:59:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PREF EUN AORC SMIG LH |
| 07VILNIUS533 |
LITHUANIA SUPPORTS UNESCO ADDRESSING HOLOCAUST [...] No summary [...] |
2007-07-26 13:01:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL UNESCO PHUM SCUL LH |
| 07VILNIUS540 |
LITHUANIA: FIRST LADY ADAMKIENE WILL ATTEND UNGA, [...] No summary [...] |
2007-07-31 08:58:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL SOCI TSPL UNGA LH |
| 07VILNIUS542 |
SCENESETTER FOR THE VISIT OF THE LITHUANIAN [...] (C) As part of President Adamkus's decision to maintain a combat platoon on Iraq, he tasked Foreign Minister Vaitiekunas and Defense Minister Olekas to travel to Washington to discuss Lithuania's role in Iraq. MNF-Iraq has given the Lithuanian military a variety of options and promised needed [...] |
2007-08-01 08:01:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | OVIP PREL PGOV MOPS MARR IZ LH |
| 07VILNIUS543 |
LITHUANIA: RATIFIED NUCLEAR TERRORISM CONVENTION [...] No summary [...] |
2007-08-01 09:36:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KNNP PTER MCAP PINR PINS PARM LH |
| 07VILNIUS544 |
LITHUANIA YET TO CONSIDER STANDING COMMITTEE [...] No summary [...] |
2007-08-01 09:37:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | PREF PREL PHUM LH |
| 07VILNIUS545 |
LITHUANIA: WELCOMES INFO ON U.S.-INDIA PEACEFUL [...] No summary [...] |
2007-08-01 11:32:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL ENRG KNNP KTIA LH IN |
| 07VILNIUS555 |
LITHUANIA WELCOMES INFO ON U.S. CANDIDATE FOR [...] No summary [...] |
2007-08-03 13:18:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL LH |
| 07VILNIUS573 |
LITHUANIA PREPARES TO RECOGNIZE KOSOVO WITHOUT [...] (C) We delivered reftel points to Giedre Gelezeviciene of the MFA's European Union Enlargement Division. Gelezeviciene said that Lithuanian FM Petras Vaitiekunas had said that one country could not hold the process hostage as Kosovo moves towards independence. She said that the GOL would foll [...] |
2007-08-10 10:30:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KV YI UN PGOV EU LH |
| 07VILNIUS595 |
LITHUANIAN RESPONSE TO U.S. NON-PAPER ON ADAPTED [...] (C) We delivered reftel non-paper to Algis Dabkus, Director of the Security Policy Department at the MFA. Dabkus expressed surprise at the fast-paced timeline. He said that the GOL has always been willing to ratify the Adapted CFE Treaty once the Istanbul Commitments are met. 2. (C) Dabkus [...] |
2007-08-20 14:56:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | NATO KCFE PARM PREL LH |
| 07VILNIUS599 |
LITHUANIA LIKELY TO SUPPORT U.S. FOR ICAO; [...] No summary [...] |
2007-08-21 12:02:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | EAIR PREL AORC ICAO LH |
| 07VILNIUS614 |
SNIPISKES CEMETERY UPDATE: IS THE TIDE TURNING? [...] (C) Summary. On August 27, Prime Minister Gediminas Kirkilas announced a reorganization of the Working Group on the former Jewish cemetery in the Snipiskes neighborhood of Vilnius so that it consists of more senior staff and has a more responsible chairman. The Working Group has until Septem [...] |
2007-08-29 12:05:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SCUL LH |
| 07VILNIUS617 |
LITHUANIA PLEASED TO GET INFO ON UNSCR 1737 [...] No summary [...] |
2007-08-30 14:09:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM MNUC KNNP LH IR |
| 07VILNIUS618 |
CAP IMPROVES LIVES OF LITHUANIAN FARMERS BUT NOT [...] Begin summary: Statistics about the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) are readily available; however it is difficult to determine its direct impact on Lithuanian farmers with numbers alone. We recently visited several farms to get an understanding of the CAP,s effects in Lithuania. CAP funds [...] |
2007-08-31 08:52:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR ECON PGOV LH |
| 07VILNIUS621 |
LITHUANIA: APPRECIATES INFO ON TRAVEL BAN ON [...] No summary [...] |
2007-09-04 13:19:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PHUM KDEM LH |
| 07VILNIUS622 |
LITHUANIA ON EU HUMAN RIGHTS THEMATIC RESOLUTIONS [...] We delivered reftel points to Darius Staniulis, Head of the MFA's Human Rights and NGOs Division, on September 4. He noted that there were some issues -- capital punishment and the Rights of the Child text -- where the EU and the U.S. have "agreed to disagree," but he added that overall the E [...] |
2007-09-04 13:21:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PHUM LH |
| 07VILNIUS626 |
LITHUANIA WILL FOCUS ON RUSSIA ISSUES AT GYMNICH [...] (C) Summary. Lithuania plans to focus on Russia for the September 7 GYMNICH meeting. FM Vaitiekunas will argue that problems of individual EU member states with Russia should be approached as collective EU problems. He will also seek to take the agenda focus off of a Partnership and Cooperat [...] |
2007-09-05 10:59:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | EUN PGOV PREL YI RS CH IN LH |
| 07VILNIUS635 |
LITHUANIA: EU STILL DISCUSSING IAEA ISRAEL AGENDA [...] No summary [...] |
2007-09-07 14:13:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM PREL IAEA LH IS |
| 07VILNIUS637 |
IRAN CANCELLED VISIT TO LITHUANIA; GOL SHARES [...] Charge delivered ref A points to Zygimantas Pavilionis, Under Secretary in the MFA, on September 10. We delivered ref B and C points at the working level to Rimgaile Karciauskaite, Second Secretary in the MFA's Arms Control, Non-proliferation and Disarmament Division, on September 6. Karciau [...] |
2007-09-10 13:13:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KNNP MNUC IAEA AORC LH IR |
| 07VILNIUS639 |
LITHUANIA'S FIRST LADY WILL ATTEND LUNCHEON ON [...] No summary [...] |
2007-09-10 14:03:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL SOCI TSPL LH |
| 07VILNIUS647 |
LITHUANIA: BACKGROUND FOR PRESIDENT'S HUMAN RIGHTS [...] SUMMARY. Lithuania actively promotes democracy in the "new neighborhood," especially in Belarus. Post has good relations with NGOs, but limited funding to support them. The Ambassador and Post work with NGOs, with the GOL, and in the media to promote tolerance and encourage the GOL to addre [...] |
2007-09-12 13:27:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL LH |
| 07VILNIUS648 |
LITHUANIA'S CORRUPT MEDIA HURTS EVERYONE, [...] (C) SUMMARY. Some media outlets in Lithuania, newspapers especially, extort politicians and businessmen using rewards of positive coverage and the threat of negative coverage. Media corruption damages media credibility, undermines Lithuania's democratic institutions, and intimidates politicia [...] |
2007-09-13 13:26:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM ECON KCOR LH |
| 07VILNIUS659 |
ICAO ASSEMBLY: LITHUANIA LIKELY TO SUPPORT [...] No summary [...] |
2007-09-17 13:14:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | EAIR LH |
| 07VILNIUS704 |
SNIPISKES CEMETERY UPDATE: ONE STEP FORWARD... [...] (C) Summary. On September 18, the Prime Minister and his cabinet agreed that construction on or near the former Jewish cemetery in the Snipiskes neighborhood of Vilnius should be stopped and further study done. On September 27, however, the responsible agency -- the Cultural Heritage Departme [...] |
2007-10-02 12:21:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SCUL LH |
| 07VILNIUS713 |
LITHUANIA CONCERNED ABOUT BURMA, WILL SUPPORT EU [...] No summary [...] |
2007-10-04 12:22:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM BM LH |
| 07VILNIUS714 |
LITHUANIA CONSIDERS U.S. CANDIDATE FOR UN [...] No summary [...] |
2007-10-04 12:32:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL UNHRC LH |
| 07VILNIUS715 |
LITHUANIA WELCOMES USG'S DRAFT ON CONDEMNING RAPE; [...] No summary [...] |
2007-10-04 12:44:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM UN KWMN AORC SOCI LH |
| 07VILNIUS724 |
LITHUANIA WELCOMES INVITATION TO MNF-I COALITION [...] No summary [...] |
2007-10-11 10:48:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL MARR MOPS OTRA LH |
| 07VILNIUS725 |
LITHUANIA WELCOMES INFO, UNDECIDED ABOUT [...] No summary [...] |
2007-10-11 11:49:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM MNUC LH |
| 07VILNIUS729 |
LITHUANIA ON THE OCTOBER 15-16 FOREIGN MINISTERS [...] (C) Begin Summary. Lithuania's priority at the October 15-16 GAERC will be to express concerns about Russia prior to the EU-Russia summit in Portugal later this month. The FM also may intervene to discuss concerns about the EU's new treaty reform, to express support for strong pressure on Bu [...] |
2007-10-12 14:23:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ETRD ETTC KPAL LH RS IR |
| 07VILNIUS733 |
LITHUANIA PROVIDES NO DIRECT AID TO BURMA [...] No summary [...] |
2007-10-16 06:25:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM BM LH |
| 07VILNIUS742 |
USPASKICH RETURNED FROM RUSSIA, RUNNING FOR [...] (C) Summary. On September 26, Viktor Uspaskich -- businessman turned politician, former Economy Minister, and fugitive for his alleged fraudulent use of campaign funds -- returned from Moscow to Lithuania. He was immediately detained and is currently under pre-trial house arrest for six mont [...] |
2007-10-18 08:12:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KCOR LH RS |
| 07VILNIUS775 |
LITHUANIA CONSIDERS HOW TO HELP WITH THE CUBAN [...] (C) We delivered reftel points to Head of the America's Division of the MFA, Lina Gubreviciute, on October 24. Gubreviciute told us that although Cuba is not a high-profile issue for Lithuania the MFA might be interested in cooperating on one or more of the projects in reftel. She said that t [...] |
2007-10-30 12:13:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | UNGA PHUM CU LH |
| 07VILNIUS781 |
LITHUANIA REPORTS NO PKK PRESENCE [...] No summary [...] |
2007-10-31 09:01:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER PREL PGOV KTFN TU IZ EUN LH |
| 07VILNIUS783 |
SUPPORTING ARGENTINA'S REQUEST FOR INTERPOL [...] (C) Lithuania will send a representative to the INTERPOL General Assembly meeting in Morocco on November 5. Argentina's diplomatic representation for Lithuania is provided by its mission in Finland. We contacted Embassy Helsinki for help determining if our assistance would be beneficial. [...] |
2007-10-31 12:48:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER ASEC KJUS PREL PGOV LH IR |
| 07VILNIUS784 |
LITHUANIA PLANS TO IMPLEMENT FATF GUIDANCE ON IRAN [...] (C) On October 29 we met with Donatas Ziugzda, Head of the MFA's Arms Control, Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Division to discuss reftel. Ziugzda promised to consider the information and discuss it with the head of the Threat Analysis, Crisis Management and International Operations Divisi [...] |
2007-10-31 13:05:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL MNUC ECON LH |
| 07VILNIUS786 |
LITHUANIA WILL REVIEW US DESIGNATIONS OF IRANIAN [...] (C) We discussed reftel points with Donatas Ziugzda and Rigale Karciauskaite of the MFA's Arms Control, Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Divison on October 26. They planned to contact Lithuania's EU representative office in Brussels with reftel information. They suggested that Lithuania cou [...] |
2007-10-31 15:17:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP PREL PARM EFIN LH |
| 07VILNIUS789 |
AMBASSADOR CLOUD MEETS WITH NEW CHIEF OF SPECIAL [...] (U) Summary. On October 24 Ambassador met with newly commissioned Director of Special Investigations Service (STT) Zymantas Pacevicius (pat-SEV-i-chuss) to discuss the challenge of fighting corruption in Lithuania and his desire for further training opportunities. End Summary. 2. (U) Pa [...] |
2007-11-02 09:06:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL PINR LH |
| 07VILNIUS791 |
LITHUANIAN IRAQ DEPLOYMENT REQUIREMENTS [...] (C) Summary. We have conducted an assessment of the legal and political challenges posed to Lithuania by the expiration of a UN Chapter VII mandate per ref A. We conclude that the GOL will not raise any legal concerns, but we believe the political opponents of participation in Iraq will use t [...] |
2007-11-02 15:39:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MOPS PREL IZ LH |
| 07VILNIUS792 |
LITHUANIA LIKELY TO SUPPORT U.S. CANDIDACY FOR [...] (C) On October 30 we met with Dr. Irena Skardziuviene, Head of the MFA's UN and Council of Europe Division and on October 31 we saw the Ministry of Transport's Director of the Water Transport Department, Juozas Darulis and Deputy, Livita Kretkovskiene to discuss reftel. Skardziuviene said the [...] |
2007-11-02 15:43:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | AORC EWWT PHSA LH |
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