Baltic News Service
June 6, 2005

LITHUANIAN MPS GOING TO SOUTH CAUCASUS TO SHARE EURO-ATLANTIC
INTEGRATION EXPERIENCE

VILNIUS, Jun 04

Lithuanian parliamentary delegation is going to South Caucasus to
share experience of euro-Atlantic integration.

Led by Parliamentary Speaker Arturas Paulauskas, the parliamentary
delegation during the week-long visit to Azerbaijan, Georgia and
Armenia will meet with top officials and politicians, students,
members of non-governmental organizations of these countries.

“The purpose of the visit is to introduce three South Caucasus
countries into the development, the achievements of our country, to
assist them in developing democracy, economy, to convey the
experience we have accumulated in the process of integrations into
the European Union and NATO, all the more as Georgia and Azerbaijan
have already declared quite explicitly their willingness to access
the EU and NATO and so our experience in this area is very important
to them,” Paulauskas told before the visit.

While Paulauskas is in South Caucasus, he will be substituted for by
one of the deputy parliamentary speakers, member of the Labor Party
faction Viktoras Muntianas.