Gitanas Nauseda

Lithuanian leader cancels trip to Jerusalem Holocaust Forum

"I will go to a symbolic site - the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp - to pay tribute to the millions of Jews who perished in the Holocaust during World War Two," Nauseda wrote. He added that he also "bowed his head" before the 200,000 Lithuanian Holocaust victims. Valda Kalnina/PAP/EPA

Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda on Tuesday announced that he would not attend the January 23 World Holocaust Forum in Jerusalem, but would come to Poland for January 27 observations of the 75th liberation anniversary of the Nazi-German Auschwitz death camp.

Lithuanian president's visit important sign of friendship - President Duda

The current visit by the Lithuanian president is an important sign of friendship for us, Polish President Andrzej Duda said during a joint press conference after meeting with Gitanas Nauseda, the newly elected President of Lithuania.

New Lithuanian president to visit Poland on Tuesday

Gitanas Nauseda, sworn in as Lithuania's president on Friday, is to pay an official visit to Warsaw with his wife, Diana Nausediene, on Tuesday. It will be the new presidential couple's first foreign visit.

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