President Park Geun-hye held summit talks with Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė at Cheong Wa Dae on February 18 to discuss ways to expand cooperation on trade, investment, energy, infrastructure and IT.

President Park welcomed the Lithuanian leader as the first foreign head of state to visit Korea in 2014. She offered words of congratulations on Lithuanian Independence Day, which fell last Sunday. President Park told her counterpart that Korea and Lithuania have been developing their friendship since the establishment of diplomatic ties in 1991. She hoped that both Korea and Lithuania could further strengthen the momentum for bilateral cooperation across a wider variety of areas thanks to the Lithuanian leader’s Korea visit.



President Park proposed to her Lithuanian counterpart that the two countries especially enhance cooperation on energy, IT, infrastructure, and online education, some of the common interests between the two nations.

President Grybauskaitė congratulated President Park on becoming the first female leader of Korea. The Lithuanian leader told President Park that she remembers quite fondly the letters she received from young Korean girls she met while in Korea in 2012 to attend the Nuclear Security Summit. In the letters, President Grybauskaitė said, they hoped that Korea could also have a female leader in the future.

The Lithuanian president is currently on a working visit to Korea to attend the christening of an LNG carrier ship in the port city of Ulsan which Lithuania will use over the next five years.

By Yoon Sojung
Korea.net Staff Writer
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