On June 10, 2003, Minister Oskanian received Ambassador Rimantas Shidlauskas of the Republic of Lithuania who presented copies of his credentials. Ambassador Shidlauskas and Minister Oskanian spoke about the very positive state of bilateral political and economic relations between the two countries. At the same time they expressed their common belief that much more can be done to improve multilateral relations and cooperation in international forums.

Miniter Oskanian and Secretary Ignatavichius discussed trade, political and other issues. They agreed that despite a long tradition of shared relations, political dialog and cooperation between the two countries had not developed as quickly and as deeply as is desirable and possible, and announced that they would work to speed up the process.

During the meeting they discussed issues specific to the Baltic and to the Caucasus regions, including the status of the Nagorno Karabagh conflict.