Iran, Lithuania Discuss Promotion of Relations

(FNA)- Iran's Accredited Ambassador to Vilnius Ramin Mehman-Parast and Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite explored new avenues for promoting ties in all domains.

In a meeting on Friday, both sides voiced readiness for boosting of cooperation in all fields.

Mehman-Parast is Iran's ambassador to Poland too.

Early in December 2013, in a meeting in the Lithuanian capital, Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for European and America Affairs Majid Takht Ravanchi and Acting Lithuanian Foreign Minister Andreas Bildguvich explored avenues for reinvigorating and bolstering mutual cooperation between the two countries.

Lithuania is a country in Northern Europe, the largest of the three Baltic states. It is situated along the Southeastern shore of the Baltic Sea, to the East of Sweden and Denmark. It borders Latvia to the North, Belarus to the East and South, Poland to the South, and Kaliningrad Oblast (a Russian exclave) to the Southwest. Lithuania has an estimated population of 3 million as of 2013, and its capital and largest city is Vilnius. The Lithuanians are a Baltic people, and the official language, Lithuanian, is one of only two living languages (together with Latvian) in the Baltic branch of the Indo-European language family.