YEREVAN. – Armenia’s Deputy FM Zohrab Mnatsakanyan was in Lithuania, on Monday and Tuesday, to hold political consultations.

On Tuesday, Mnatsakanyan met with Lithuania’s Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs, Vytautas Leškevičius, Armenian MFA press service informs. They discussed matters dealing with Armenia-EU cooperation, the positive course of the Armenia-EU Association Agreement, the free trade zone, and bilateral cooperation.  

Next, Armenia’s deputy FM met with Lithuanian MFA Director of Political Affairs Department, Ambassador Dalius Čekuolis; Lithuanian MFA Director of Eastern Neighbourhood Policy Department, Ambassador Edminas Bagdonas; and other Lithuanian MFA representatives. The interlocutors reflected on bilateral, multilateral and regional matters, and on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.    

On the same day, discussions were held at the European Club of the Lithuanian Seimas (Parliament), where Deputy FM Mnatsakanyan spoke about Armenia’s foreign policy priorities, cooperation with EU, and the country’s outlook on regional security issues and on a variety of international matters.     

Subsequently, Zohrab Mnatsakanyan met with Lithuanian Seimas Deputy Speaker and European Affairs Committee Chairman, Gediminas Kirkilas, during which they discussed the avenues for deepening interparliamentary cooperation.