Visitor from a parallel world
Sep 23, 2009
By Rokas M. Tracevskis

STRANGERS: Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko in his first visit to Lithuania since 1997, with President Dalia Grybauskaite.
VILNIUS - On Sept. 16, Belarus' authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko made his historic trip to Vilnius, where he met with Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite. It was his second visit to the European Union after the EU foreign ministers agreed in October 2008 to lift a ban for Belarusian top officials to enter the EU. In April, Lukashenko went to Rome to meet with Pope Benedict XVI and Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, but since then he has kept a much lower profile until this ...
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