CONFERENCE ON COMMON INTERESTS IN EUROPE HELD IN PRAGUE TO COMMEMORATE TWENTY YEARS OF BALTIC – VISEGRAD STATES DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS
Embassy of Lithuania together with the Embassies of Latvia and Estonia, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic and Prague Institute of International Relations 8th November held a conference dedicated to the 20th anniversary of renewed diplomatic relations between the Baltic States and the then Czechoslovakia: "Baltic and Visegrad States: Twenty Years of Shared Interests in Europe".
The event took place in the palace of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic. European economic governance, EU East partnership and energy security issues were dealt with. From the Lithuanian part reports were made by ambassador Audrius Brūzga, director of the energy security at the MFA of Lithuania, and the professor of Kaunas Vytautas Magnus University Liudas Mažylis.
The Conference was welcomed and the keynote speech was made by Jiři Schneider, the first vice Minister of the Czech MFA.
On the occasion of the conference an exhibition displaying historical documents "Czechoslovakia and Lithuania: Road to Freedom" was opened, prepared by historians of both the countries - Dalia Bukelevičiūtė and Luboš Švec with the cooperation of the Lithuanian and Czech Embassies.
The exhibition displays social and political context of Lithuania and Czechoslovakia before and after re-establishment of the diplomatic relations, first diplomatic appointments, history of the first bilateral visits. It was exhibited in Vilnius University September 2011.
Lithuania re-established diplomatic relations with the Czech and Slovak Federal Republic 9th September 1991.
