The Lithuanian, Swedish and Azeri Foreign Minister in New York discussed perspectives of regional cooperation

As the Lithuanian Foreign Ministry portal informed the Foreign Ministers of Lithuania Petras Vaitiekūnas, Sweden Carl Bildt and Azerbaijan Marat Tazhin had a meeting in New York, during the 62nd session of the United Nations General Assembly.

The Ministers of Foreign Affairs discussed the importance of Kazakhstan’s role in Central Asia and perspectives of regional cooperation. The Ministers also discussed the idea of Lithuania to promote regional cooperation between the Baltic, Nordic and Central Asian countries.

The Ministers also discussed Kazakhstan’s participation in the upcoming Vilnius Energy Security Conference 2007 on 10-11 October. Considering Kazakhstan’s growing role as a global energy actor, the European Union is especially interested in mutually beneficial cooperation in the area of energy.

Lithuania calls for intl environmental governance during the 62nd session of the UN General Assembly

The President of Lithuania made a speech at a 62nd session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York on Monday.  President Adamkus himself with a very strong environmental background called establishment of a UN Organization for the Environment with a revised and strengthened mandate since the world needs a more coherent and inclusive system of international environmental governance.

“The last several years constituted a breakthrough in understanding the dangerous consequences of environmental neglect when even the most ardent opponents of global warming have started acknowledging the disastrous effects of unrestrained human activity. This reality requires urgent, ambitious, concerted, and focused efforts by the whole global community. But the starting point must be a strong political will by all countries, international organizations, and political leaders for real and concrete actions,” noted the Lithuanian president.

The President also met with the Lithuanian President Valdas Adamkus met United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon on Sunday.  Two leaders discussed Lithuania’s contribution to stability and safety in Afghanistan, relations with Russia and the importance of the solutions to “frozen conflicts” in Georgia and Moldova.

As the presidential Press office informed later in the day, the Presidents of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia visited the New York Stock Exchange. In honour of the occasion, the presidents of the three Baltic States rang the closing bell.

President Adamkus said that the Baltic States represented a most dynamically growing part of Europe, emphasizing that the region had the highest GDP growth in the European Union over this decade.

Adamkus underlined that Lithuania had ambitious plans to create an effective and environment friendly energy sector and infrastructure by building a modern reactor unit at the Ignalina nuclear power plant.  “To this end, we expect to attract foreign businesses,” said Mr. Adamkus.

Lithuania’s national broadcaster launches LTV World

As the Lithuanian national broadcaster has announced it launched its third channel, LTV World, which for now will be seen by viewers in northern and western Europe, and later by audiences in North America.

Under the current plan, broadcasts of LTV World in North America should be started via the Sirius 3 satellite by November 1.Mr. Petrauskis the director general of the Lithuanian Radio and Television said the BNS that “As long as people care about what is going on Lithuania, they will be part of our nation and we will foster the hope that they might come back”.

LTV World will broadcast about 11 hours a day – from 2:25 p.m. to 1 a.m. Lithuanian time. It will include best programs of channels 1 and 2 of the Lithuanian national television.

Considering the time difference between Lithuania and Western Europe, some programs on LTV World will be broadcast an hour later – for instance, the key news program Panorama will be on at 9:30 p.m.

I would also like to remind you that the National Lithuanian Radio is daily broadcasting Vilnius Radio programme in English.  You could listen many programmes strode on the archives. Enjoy!