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India opens a new Indian embassy in Lithuania

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    10Pointer
  • Categories
    World Affairs
  • Published
    28th Apr, 2022

Context

The Union Cabinet approved a proposal to open a new Indian embassy in Lithuania, the first full-fledged embassy in the Baltic region.

About Lithuania

  • Lithuania was the first Baltic country to open an embassy in India in 2008.
  • Lithuania, an Eastern European country with a coastline at the Baltic Sea in west.
  • It is the largest and most populous of the three Baltic states.
    • Other Baltic states are Estonia, Latvia
  • The country is bordered by Belarus, Latvia, Poland, and Russia(Kaliningrad) and it shares a maritime border with Sweden.

Significance

  • The opening of the mission in Lithuania would help India expand its political, strategic and economic engagements with that country.
  • It will enable the growth of bilateral trade, investment and economic engagements and facilitate stronger people-to-people contacts.

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