New British Foreign Secretary William Hague sent a letter to Lithuania’s Minister of Foreign Affairs A. Ažubalis, highlighting the determination to continue and to broaden the close working relationship that the UK and Lithuania shares both bilaterally and within the framework of the EU and NATO.
New British Foreign Secretary William Hague sent a letter to Lithuania’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Audronius Ažubalis, highlighting the determination to continue and to broaden the close working relationship that the UK and Lithuania shares both bilaterally and within the framework of the EU and NATO.
In the letter, W.Hague writes that he knows of the ambitious programme of public sector reform that Lithuania is currently undertaking and hopes that the UK is able to share good practice and experience with the Lithuanian institutions to assist in this.
The new British Foreign Secretary also writes that he admires Lithuania’s contribution to the international effort in Afghanistan.
“Our continued effort is necessary to enable the Afghanistan government and police to stabilise security and civilian development. I saw for myself there last week the scale of the challenge: but also the changes that are happening,” W.Hague writes in the letter of 26 May.
W.Hague expresses gratitude for the consultations that Lithuania is carrying out on the subject of the priorities of Lithuania’s chairmanship of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe next year and stresses that he looks forward to cooperating closely on this.