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LITHUANIAN - ISRAELI BILATERAL POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC CONSULTATIONS IN JERUSALEM

Lithuanian Delegation led by Undersecretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs O.Jusys has returned from the bilateral political-economic consultations which took place in Jerusalem on 28-31 January 2007. At the consultations both sides discussed the current political and economic issues, e.g. investments promotion, strengthening of business contacts, exchange of high level visits, the eventual opening of an Israeli embassy in Vilnius.
During the visit Lithuanian delegation has met the members of Knesset‘s Lithuanian-Israeli friendship league, Chairman and representatives of the Association of Lithuanian Jews in Israel, President and members of the Beit Vilna, former Chairman of the Supreme Court Aharon Barak. Lithuanian delegation has also visited the Yad Vashem memorial commemorating the remembrance of all Jews exterminated during the Holocaust events.


Visit at the Knesset, in the Chagall Hall - Undersecretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs O.Jusys (left) and Director of Americas, Africa, Asia and Pacific Department of Ministry of Foreign Affairs J.Paslauskas Visit at Beit Vilna (House of Vilnius) in Tel Aviv - (from left to right) - Ambassador of Lithuania A.Skaisgirytė Liauškienė, Undersecretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs O.Jusys, Chairman of the Association of Jews from Vilna and vicinity in Israel M.Shemiavitz, Rabbi S.Farber,Vice chairman of the Association of Jews from Vilna and vicinity in Israel Y.Brosh, Chairman of Jewish Gluboki Association in Israel Y.Shapiro,  Director of Americas, Africa, Asia and Pacific Department of Ministry of Foreign Affairs J.Paslauskas, First Secretary of Americas, Africa, Asia and Pasific Department Jūratė Ramoškienė, Chairperson of the Next generation of Vilnius Jewish Association M.Kantor, Counsellor of the Embassy S.Jaskelevičius
Yad Vashem, Hall of Names (from left to right) - Undersecretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs O.Jusys, Ambassador of Lithuania A.Skaisgirytė Liauškienė, Director of Americas, Africa, Asia and Pacific Department of Ministry of Foreign Affairs J.Paslauskas. Yad Vashem, Hall of Remembrance ( from left to right): Ambassador of Lithuania A.Skaisgirytė Liauškienė, Undersecretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs O.Jusys, Director of Americas, Africa, Asia and Pacific Department of Ministry of Foreign Affairs J.Paslauskas, Counsellor of the Embassy S.Jaskelevičius, First Secretary of Americas, Africa, Asia and Pasific Department Jūratė Ramoškienė