Foreign Minister Çavuşoğlu is in Lithuania
Foreign Minister Çavuşoğlu is in Lithuania

Minister of Foreign Affairs Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu paid an official visit to the Republic of Lithuania on 3 April 2015, upon the invitation of Linas Linkevičius, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Lithuania.

Foreign Minister Çavuşoğlu met with his Lithuanian counterpart Linas Linkevičius, and was received by Dalia Grybauskaitė, President of Lithuania, and Algirdas Butkevičius, Prime Minister of Lithuania during his visit, which bears a particular significance in maintaining the intensified contacts and increasing cooperation with the Baltic countries.

Speaking at the joint press conference held after the meetings, Foreign Minister stated that Turkey was one of the first countries to open an Embassy at Lithuania following Lithuanian independence, that both sides are making efforts to further develop bilateral ties which are already strengthened by reciprocal high level visits and that they aim to enhance bilateral trade volume upto 1 billion Dollars which exceeded 500 million Dollars last year.

Foreign Minister Çavuşoğlu also thanked his counterpart for Lithuania'a support for Turkey's EU accession process and said “We want to open more chapters, we have managed to open 14 chapters so far but this is not enough.”