FRIENDSHIP AMONG BALTIC STATES SEEN AS EXAMPLE TO SOUTH CAUCASUS REGION

Baltic News Service
May 16, 2005

VILNIUS, May 16 — Cooperation among Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia
is an example to South Caucasus region countries.

Lithuanian President Valdas Adamkus and Armenian President Robert
Kocharyan talked about this in Warsaw on Monday. They are attending
a summit of the Council of Europe in the Polish capital.

At the meeting with the Lithuanian leader, the Armenian president
expressed hope that such impressive Baltic cooperation experience
would be used in the South Caucasus region, the president’s press
service reported.

Meantime, Adamkus said he believed that upon opening a Lithuanian
embassy in the Georgian capital of Tbilisi in the fall, which was
scheduled to be accredited to Armenia as well, bilateral cooperation
would become more active.

The president noted that Lithuania was interested in using economic
cooperation possibilities better.

“Lithuania is urging the EU to give South Caucasus countries more
cooperation possibilities,” Adamkus said.

Vilnius newsroom, +370 5 2681510, politika@bns.lt