Europe Information Service
Euro-East
June 17, 2004
ARMENIAN DIPLOMATS ATTEND EURO-INTEGRATION INTERNSHIP IN LITHUANIA
Armenian diplomats attended an internship at the Lithuanian
Foreign Ministry from May 31 to June 11 to learn more about
European integration. According to the Ministry, they studied the
Lithuanian experience of preparations for EU membership, various
aspects of co-ordination of EU-related activities, and formation of
public opinion on Euro-integration, as well as attending a series
of meetings in the Lithuanian institutions and visiting the Vilnius
University’s International Relations and Political Science Institute.
The Ministry explained that representatives of the countries of
the South Caucasus (Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia) would attend
various training activities on public administration in Lithuania in
2004-2005, in the framework of a programme to transfer Lithuania’s
Euro-integration experience to these countries. A similar internship
was held for Ukrainian officials in January.