“There are no frozen conflicts in Ukraine now, there frozen problems,” Georgia’s Ambassador to Lithuania David Aptsiauri announced at the International Summer Academy held at Lithuanian Dubingiai conference center and dedicated to problems of the Baltic and Black Sea cooperation and Russia’s role in “frozen conflicts,” a REGNUM correspondent reports.

“Our position is the following today: we have last much time and many opportunities, but we must go forward,” the ambassador said. “One must give up common stereotypes and have a direct dialog between sides in order to come to a consensus. Georgia has been actively developing, and together with us Abkhazia and Ossetia can reach a lot too.” The Georgian ambassador stressed that “Russia in this situation is undoubtedly a member of a big family, who does not behave properly.”

The International Summer Academy is organized by the Center for Geopolitical Studies (Vilnius) together with the Center for International and Regional Politics (St. Petersburg) under support of the Lithuanian government, Open Society Foundation, the Konrad-Adenauer-Foundation, George C. Marshall Foundation and the US embassy in Lithuania.

According to the representative of the Russian opposition Leonid Gozman, Russia may not like the Baltic States and be an uncomfortable neighbour for Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, however is inoffensive for them, because it has finally accepted the fact of their independence.

It is easier to start business in Estonia than in Latvia and Lithuania, therefore more new firms are established in our country than in other Baltic States – refer to a new study SEB analysts and entrepreneurs.

President of the European Commission Jose Manuel Barroso received in Brussels representatives of the Lithuanian Government and promised to help the country to pass on to Euro in 2015.

The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Linas Linkevičius and the U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, signed in Brussels a joint plan on combating the illicit trafficking in nuclear and radioactive materials, reported in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania.

This was stated by the Prime Minister of Lithuania Algirdas Butkevicius, speaking about the powers of negotiators with the Russian company "Gazprom".