{"id":17456,"date":"2014-11-19T22:18:31","date_gmt":"2014-11-19T22:18:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/amb-karabaranga-presents-credentials-to\/"},"modified":"2014-11-20T22:58:35","modified_gmt":"2014-11-20T22:58:35","slug":"amb-karabaranga-presents-credentials-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/amb-karabaranga-presents-credentials-to\/","title":{"rendered":"Amb. Karabaranga Presents Credentials to Lithuanian Leader"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-7346 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/perez-2d00b.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>{Amb. Jean Pierre Karabaranga on Tuesday presented his letters of credence to the President of Lithuania, Dalia Grybauskaite, in the capital Vilnius, becoming Rwanda&#8217;s first envoy to the country, reports The New Times.}<\/p>\n<p>Their discussion focused on bilateral cooperation in such areas as education, IT, sport and infrastructure, according to a statement from the Rwandan embassy.<\/p>\n<p>The Rwandan envoy and his team also held talks with Neris Germanas, the vice minister in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Ina Marciulionyte, director, Latin America, Africa, Asia and Pacific Department; and Amb. Petras Zapolskas, director of state and diplomatic protocol.<\/p>\n<p>Covering an area of 65,200 square kilometers, Lithuania regained its independence from the Soviet Union on March 11, 1990. It is inhabited by three million people.<\/p>\n<p>Lithuania is a member of the European Union, and the Council of Europe, and is a full member of the Schengen Agreement, part of the NATO, and is currently a non-permanent member of the United Nations Security Council.<\/p>\n<p>Lithuania has been among the fastest growing economies in the EU and is ranked 17th in the world in the ease of doing business index.<\/p>\n<p>Karabaranga is the first Rwandan ambassador accredited to Lithuania, a country located in the northern part of Europe. The two nations took a giant step to establish bilateral diplomatic relations on March 27, 2013 with the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{Amb. Jean Pierre Karabaranga on Tuesday presented his letters of credence to the President of Lithuania, Dalia Grybauskaite, in the capital Vilnius, becoming Rwanda&#8217;s first envoy to the country, reports The New Times.} Their discussion focused on bilateral cooperation in such areas as education, IT, sport and infrastructure, according to a statement from the Rwandan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2000055075,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-17456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":{"id":2000055075,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton17456.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton17456.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton17456.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton17456.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton17456.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton17456.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17456\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000055075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17456"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=17456"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=17456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}