Vydas Dolinskas, Director of the Grand-Ducal Palace of Lithuania - National Museum; Jean Asselborn, Minister of Foreign and European Affairs, Minister of Immigration and Asylum; HRH the Grand Duke Henri of Luxembourg;
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Today marks the final day of His Royal Highness the Grand Duke Henri of Luxembourg’s official visit to Lithuania.
At the invitation of the President of the Republic of Lithuania, Dalia Grybauskaite, HRH the Grand Duke, accompanied by Deputy Prime Minister Etienne Schneider and Minister of Foreign and European Affairs Jean Asselborn, visited Lithuania on Thursday and Friday this week.
On the first day of the visit, yesterday, HRH the Grand Duke Henri received an official welcome from the Lithuanian president at the Vilnius Presidential Palace, where the two heads of state participated in a face-to-face interview. This lead on to a meeting of the delegations, attended by Etienne Schneider and Jean Asselborn on the Luxembourg side and Foreign Minister Linas Linkevicius and Minister of Energy and Acting Minister of Economy Zygimantas Vaiciunas on the Lithuanian side. Discussions focused on the major issues of European political news as well as bilateral relations in the fields of defence, science, technology and the economy.
The Luxembourg Head of State also met with the Lithuanian Prime Minister, Saulius Skvernelis, followed by a working meeting of the delegations. Topics relating to bilateral relations, major issues of European political and economic news and more particularly innovation in Luxembourg and Lithuania were on the agenda of these discussions.
Among other things, the Luxembourg delegation then visited the technology park Sapiegos Vilnius Tech Park, before exploring the old town of Vilnius.
A gala dinner hosted by President Dalia Grybauskaite, at the presidential palace in honour of the Grand Duke, closed this first day of the official visit.
Then today, on the last day of the visit, Grand Duke Henri and Minister Etienne Schneider visited Pabrade, the “transport” platoon of the NATO military battalion, where they were greeted again by the Lithuanian president, along with the Minister of National Defence Raimundas Karoblis and several Lithuanian army colonels. On this occasion, HRH the Grand Duke and Minister Schneider also had the opportunity to meet with the twenty-two Luxembourgish soldiers participating in the battalion.
