Business in Europe, EU – Baltic States, Legislation, Lithuania, Ukraine

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Grauziniene attended the meetings together with Mogens Lykketoft, speaker of the Folketing of the Kingdom of Denmark; Gundars Daudze, deputy speaker of the Saeima of the Republic of Latvia; Olemic Thommessen, president of the Storting of the Kingdom of Norway; and Urban Ahlin, speaker of the Riksdag of the Kingdom of Sweden.

Grauziniene stressed that difficult economic reforms and the concern to maintain people's trust required certain sensitivity. The citizens should see positive results of the ongoing reforms in fighting corruption and other negative phenomena.

Besides, the head of parliament thanked the people of Ukraine for their fierce struggle. "Protecting your homeland Ukraine, you are protecting the whole of Europe," she said.

The head of the Seimas promised to support the Ukrainian parliament in carrying through the reforms and called on the leaders of the Ukrainian Parliament to update the activities of the existing parliamentary assemblies and interparliamentary groups.

Additionally, there were meetings with the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine and Bohdan Kryklyvenko, secretary general of the Ombudsman's Office. Other meetings are planned with heads of deputy factions and parliamentary groups of the Verkhovna Rada and with the Committee on European Integration.