This is the official account of the Permanent Mission of the Republic of Lithuania to the UN Office and Other International Organizations in Geneva.
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Behind every presidency there's a team 👋
From January, together with @EU_UNGeneva, these are the people who'll be bringing 🇪🇺 27 voices together in #InternationalGeneva
We come from a country that sang its way to freedom- so we've had some practice 🇱🇹🎶
#LT27EU 🇱🇹🤝🇪🇺
Lithuanian Permanent Mission in Geneva retweeted
#Europe must be at the table when peace in #Ukraine is negotiated - but not as a collection of fragmented voices. Any contact with Russia must be backed by a united position, real leverage and a list of European demands. Engaging with Putin one by one and without clear agenda has never worked for Europe. Not once.
🇱🇹 #Lithuania’s laser industry keeps growing!
#Litilit has opened a new €6M factory in #Vilnius, set to produce up to 3,000 ultrashort-pulse lasers a year!
Made in Lithuania, its lasers are used worldwide🌍, from eye surgery to data centres!
Lithuanian Permanent Mission in Geneva retweeted
Health care in Ukraine remains under strain as attacks damage hospitals, ambulances and warehouses storing life-saving medicines.
Over the last months, an increased impact on medical infrastructure, including in Kyiv, has severely disrupted access to vital care.
#NotATarget
Lithuanian Permanent Mission in Geneva retweeted
As attacks intensify, UNHCR urges support for war-ravaged Ukrainians
unhcr.org/news/briefing-note…
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Lithuanian Permanent Mission in Geneva retweeted
At #UNGA81 Third Committee, Lithuania, on behalf of the #NB8 🇩🇰🇪🇪🇫🇮🇮🇸🇱🇻🇱🇹🇳🇴🇸🇪, highlighted Belarus’s growing disregard for human rights, at home and beyond its borders.
Belarus actively supports Russia’s war of aggression, increasingly generates hybrid threats against its neighbours, including the instrumentalisation of migrants, and is complicit in the unlawful deportation of Ukrainian children. It must stop.
belarus keeps tightening its grip on human rights:
▪️Dismantles civil society and independent media
▪️Jails opponents on political charges and uses torture, including sexual & gender-based violence
▪️Targets Belarusians abroad through transnational repression
▪️Specifically targets women activists, journalists and human rights defenders
▪️ Treats political prisoners as bargaining chips
Releases must be unconditional, with no coercion, forced exile or further punishment.
#HumanRights #StandWithUkraine
Lithuanian Permanent Mission in Geneva retweeted
I met with the Speaker of the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania, Juozas Olekas. I thanked the Lithuanian people for their unwavering, strong, and consistent support for Ukraine.
We discussed in detail our European integration and the priorities of Lithuania’s presidency of the Council of the EU in the first half of 2027. It is very important that the remaining two negotiating clusters for Ukraine be opened by the end of this year, so that during Lithuania’s presidency we can already begin closing negotiating chapters.
I briefed the Speaker on the meetings in Oslo and the overall situation in the negotiation process. We expect the trilateral meeting of the American, Ukrainian, and Russian teams to take place as early as the beginning of November.
I am grateful to Lithuania for supporting Ukraine.
Lithuanian Permanent Mission in Geneva retweeted
Today Sweden spoke on behalf of the Nordic-Baltic countries in the UN dialogue on the Human Rights situation in the Russian Federation. The most recent report is harrowing reading, showing that “torture and ill-treatment remained widespread, systematic and part of a government strategy of repression”.
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Read the statement here: swedenabroad.se/en/embassies…
Read the UN-report here: documents.un.org/doc/undoc/g…
Lithuanian Permanent Mission in Geneva retweeted
While Russia obstructed all aid and evacuation efforts in occupied Oleshky, Ukraine used heavy-lift drones in September to deliver nearly 4 tonnes of food and medicine to residents facing severe shortages under brutal Russian occupation.
Lithuanian Permanent Mission in Geneva retweeted
The @UN Commission of Inquiry on #Ukraine found in a new report that Russian authorities:
➡️ Committed crimes against humanity through attacks on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure
➡️ Trafficked foreign nationals to fight in their armed forces in Ukraine.
👉 bit.ly/4BqJhff
Lithuanian Permanent Mission in Geneva retweeted
🚨 Ukraine
A Russian drone struck civilian infrastructure yesterday in Synelnykove, Dnipropetrovsk region.
The strike occurred less than one kilometre from a hospital supported by MSF where staff responded to the mass casualty incident. Four people were killed and more than 13 injured.
We condemn this senseless attack on civilian infrastructure.
msf.org/senseless-russian-at…
Russia continues to disturb🛰️satellite and GNSS signals,affecting European countries' critical infrastructure&services.
➡️Ahead of the next @ITU #RRB (26-30 Oct), we strongly condemn these unacceptable actions and call on #Russia to stop🛑
#StopRussianJamming
Lithuanian Permanent Mission in Geneva retweeted
Attacks directed against civilians are prohibited under international law.
Yet, from the Middle East to Ukraine to Sudan, we are seeing civilians & civilian infrastructure deliberately thrust into the line of fire.
These attacks must stop.
Civilians are #NotATarget!
Lithuanian Permanent Mission in Geneva retweeted
Happy #UNday ! 🎉🇺🇳🤩
Peace, human rights, sustainable development, global health, support for refugees - the UN works on challenges that affect us all. 🌍
Let‘s celebrate the power of bringing the world together! 🤝
#MultilateralismMatters #EUintheUN
Lithuanian Permanent Mission in Geneva retweeted
🇺🇳 Today marks 81 years of the @UN.
As Russian attacks continue across #Ukraine, we work alongside our partners to deliver aid & help communities recover.
United for the people of Ukraine & a peaceful future💙
#UnitedForUkraine
Lithuanian Permanent Mission in Geneva retweeted
Russian attacks on civilian ships in the Black Sea are unjustifiable and pile heavy pressure on global food supplies.
The latest deadly drone strike on a cargo ship near Romanian waters is another escalation.
Romania’s Foreign Minister @DanNeculaescu and I spoke yesterday about the deteriorating regional security situation and we remain in close contact.
Lithuanian Permanent Mission in Geneva retweeted
Ambassador Steggerda met with Lithuanian Ambassador Rytis Paulauskas from @LtGva to discuss advancing shared interests such as modernizing Geneva’s international institutions and economic prosperity. The 🇺🇸 values its partnership with 🇱🇹 as we work together to address global challenges.
🇱🇹PR @RytisPaulauska met with🇺🇸@usmissiongeneva PR Todd Steggerda
A strong,effective @UN that delivers concrete results for people – that is the goal we share!
Lithuania will carry it into our upcoming @EUCouncil Presidency,where close transatlantic ties are a priority, alongside countering hybrid threats against our societies:from instrumentalisation of migration to GPS jamming&sabotage of undersea cables.
🇱🇹remains a committed @NATO Ally&among the first in the “5% Club”!
Also looking forward to the opportunity to contribute jointly to global culture through cultural diplomacy events!🇱🇹🤝🇺🇸
Lithuanian Permanent Mission in Geneva retweeted
Just 20 km from the frontline, reaching Derhachi in #Kharkiv region is becoming increasingly dangerous due to drone attacks, and delivering essential supplies is growing more difficult.
To support families living there, @UNICEF with @WFPUkraine and parnters delivered hygiene and food kits to families across 15 settlements of the community.