Lithuanian-Polish Strategic Partnership: Genesis and Prospects
Lithuanian-Polish Strategic Partnership: Genesis and Prospects

Summary/Abstract: The intention to discuss the content and development of the Lithuanian-Polish inter-state relations has been sparked off, at least formally, not only by the date of 5 September (on this date ten years ago, as we know, the two countries restored their diplomatic relations), but likewise by another date of not lesser importance — the middle of 2002, when it is planned to announce at the NATO Summit the second round of the Alliance's expansion. We believe that these two dates could also serve as a good background in assessing the present state of the relationship of these two states which is usually defined as "strategic partnership". (As we know, the first to use this term was the Lithuanian Minister for Foreign Affairs Algirdas Saudargas, and later — in the autumn of the same 1997 — the Polish Minister for Foreign Affairs Geremek applied the same phrase to define the Polish-Lithuanian relations.)

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