India opens a new Indian embassy in Lithuania

Context

The Union Cabinet approved a proposal to open a new Indian embassy in Lithuania, the first full-fledged embassy in the Baltic region.

About Lithuania

• Lithuania was the first Baltic country to open an embassy in India in 2008.
• Lithuania, an Eastern European country with a coastline at the Baltic Sea in west.
• It is the largest and most populous of the three Baltic states.
  • Other Baltic states are Estonia, Latvia
• The country is bordered by Belarus, Latvia, Poland, and Russia(Kaliningrad) and it shares a maritime border with Sweden.
  

Significance

• The opening of the mission in Lithuania would help India expand its political, strategic and economic engagements with that country.
• It will enable the growth of bilateral trade, investment and economic engagements and facilitate stronger people-to-people contacts.