Mr. Mindaugas Kvietkauskas, Minister of Culture, expressed his joy in close cultural relations of the countries in the meeting with the Swedish ambassador, Mrs. Maria Christina Lundquist, and thanked the Swedish Government for the financial gift – special cooperation fund of Sweden and Lithuania. 

Mr. Mindaugas Kvietkauskas, Minister of Culture, met the new Turkish ambassador, Mr. Gökhan Turan to discuss the cooperation perspectives in the area of culture.

Mr. Mindaugas Kvietkauskas, Minister of Culture, and the Chinese ambassador, Mr. Shen Zhifei, expressed their joy about intensive cultural relations between the countries in their introductory meeting on Thursday. 

On Wednesday, Mr. Mindaugas Kvietkauskas, Minister of Culture, met the Japanese ambassador, Mr. Shiro Yamasaki to discuss briefly the projects of cultural cooperation between the countries and possible Japanese input into the wide range of cultural events held in Lithuania.

The Lithuanian and Israeli cultural cooperation, its strengthening directions, joint projects and the closest events were discussed in the meeting of Mr. Mindaugas Kvietkauskas, Minister of Culture, with the ambassador of the State of Israel, Mr. Amir Maimon.

Mr. Mindaugas Kvietkauskas, Minister of Culture, met the new Lithuanian cultural attaché in Italy, Mrs. Laura Gabrielaitytė-Kazulėnienė, on Tuesday and wished her to find as many new links in the areas of the Lithuanian and Italian cultural cooperation as possible, as well as to continue ...

The Chevalier’s Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland was granted to Mr. Mindaugas Kvietkauskas, Minister of Culture, in the Pac Palace in Vilnius, by the embassy of the Republic of Poland.

The Concept of the Culture Internationalization Policy, developed in the framework of the implementation of the action plan of the Government Programme of the Republic of Lithuania, defines the goal, objectives, implementation principles, the values generated by the internationalization of culture, and a model of integrated coordination with other policy fields.

From January 2019, grants are available from the Baltic Culture Fund for joint cultural projects between Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia. 

Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis has introduced the Minister of Culture Mindaugas Kvietkauskas, who starts working today, to the employees of the Ministry of Culture, and wished him success in implementation of structural changes in the area of culture.