Visas granted to Yugoslav basketball team

  • 1999-06-17
VILNIUS (BNS) – Lithuania will issue entry visas for a team of Yugoslav basketball players coming to compete with Lithuania's national men's team, the Foreign Ministry said.The Lithuanian and Yugoslav teams will play an exhibition match in Lithuania's second largest city, Kaunas. Vygaudas Usackas, director of the Lithuanian Foreign Ministry's policy department, said that the Yugoslav players will receive visas because their team does not include anyone declared persona non grata by the European Union.The second reason why the Yugoslav team will be allowed to enter Lithuania is that it will ...
 
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