Wednesday, March 7, 2012

Ambassador Dalius Čekuolis, 2012 Candidate For President Of The UN General Assembly: Lessons Lithuania Has Learned Since Joining The UN


You’ve come a long way Lithuania, and it’s never been more obvious at the United Nations than it is right now in the year 2012. Lithuanian Ambassador Dalius Čekuolis, candidate for President of this year’s 67th session of the UN General Assembly shares his thoughts on the lessons learned by Lithuania since it joined the United Nations twenty years ago on September 17, 1991, along with Estonia and Latvia.

Not only is Lithuania a candidate for the UN Security Council in the year 2014-2015, but next year it will assume the Presidency of the European Union during the last six months of 2013. The article that follows provides insight as to what it takes to be a candidate for President of this year’s UN General Assembly, and why Lithuania’s transformation in just two decades IS nothing less than remarkable.

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