The Chinese mission in Vilnius has resumed issuing visas to Lithuanian citizens, Paulinas Levickytė, a spokesperson for the foreign minister, confirmed to the ELTA news agency.
At the end of January, it was reported that the Chinese mission in Vilnius suspended the issuance of visas to Lithuanian citizens for an unknown period of time.
Commenting on the situation at the time, Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis could not explain the reasons for Beijing’s decision. For its part, the President’s Office said it was probably a retaliatory measure by Beijing.
Previously, the Chinese mission temporarily suspended the issuance of visas to Lithuanian citizens in late November 2021.
Beijing then said the move was due to technical reasons, but it came after China had officially downgraded diplomatic ties with Lithuania to the level of chargé d’affaires in response to the opening of the Taiwanese representative office in Vilnius.
In November last year, Landsbergis said that Lithuanian and Chinese officials were in talks about the possible normalisation of diplomatic relations.
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