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Lithuania will temporarily not send ministers to Hungary for EU meetings after Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s recently visited Russia without consultating other EU member states. “For the time being, we have simply decided to limit our participation at a political level in Hungary,” Žygimantas Pavilionis, chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee in the Lithuanian parliament in Vilnius, told the BNS agency. Orbán had recently travelled to Moscow to visit Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin without consulting other EU states, a move that drew strong criticism – including from Lithuania. Sinc…

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