Japan has agreed to finance two projects on professional development and women's literacy that will be implemented by the Lithuanian-led Ghor Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) in Afghanistan. The agreement on financing was signed by the Japanese government and Japan's non-governmental development organization, Sanayee, in the Japanese embassy in Kabul, the Lithuanian Foreign Ministry said. The cost of the two projects is some 127,000 euros. The goal of the Japanese initiative is to strengthen relations between Japan and NATO.
UEFA's disciplinary committee has given the Lithuanian Football Federation a fine of nearly 9,100 euros for a racist incident that occurred during the game between the Lithuanian and French national football teams in Kaunas at the end of March. During the game Lithuanian fans unfurled a poster showing the African continent painted in the colors of the French national flag with a slogan that read "Welcome to Europe." Players originating from African countries make up a majority of the French team.
Doctors in Klaipeda diagnosed a year-and-half-old girl with HIV, the Klaipeda daily reported. This is the first time that the deadly virus has been found in children in Lithuania. The daily said that doctors have no doubt that the girl got the virus from her parents, who are both infected. Some 387 of Lithuania's 1,240 HIV-positive people reside in Klaipeda county. The nation's first case of HIV infection was also found in Klaipeda.
