{"id":7705,"date":"2026-02-10T08:49:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T08:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/7705\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T08:49:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T08:49:08","slug":"no-name-change-for-taiwans-lithuania-office-mofa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/7705\/","title":{"rendered":"No name change for Taiwan\u2019s Lithuania office: MOFA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Fion Khan  \/  Staff writer, with CNA<\/p>\n<p>The name of the Taiwanese Representative Office in Lithuania was based on a consensus reached by both sides and there is no discussion about changing it, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) said today.<\/p>\n<p>The ministry\u2019s remarks came after Lithuanian Prime Minister Inga Ruginiene, who took office in September last year, described a 2021 decision to let Taiwan set up a de facto embassy in Vilnius as a \u201cmistake.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Taiwan and Lithuania are important partners that share the values of freedom and democracy, ministry spokesman Hsiao Kuang-wei (\u856d\u5149\u5049) told a regular news conference in Taipei today.<\/p>\n<p>                        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/5338648_1_1.jpg\" width=\"100%\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Photo: AFP file photo<\/p>\n<p>The two countries have continued working together to promote substantive cooperation in fields such as lasers, semiconductors and finance, enhancing democratic economic resilience, Hsiao said.<\/p>\n<p>Both sides look forward to deepening bilateral relations and substantive cooperation, he said, adding that Taiwan would continue to maintain close communication with Lithuania.<\/p>\n<p>China downgraded relations with Lithuania after Taiwan opened the office.<\/p>\n<p>In contrast to Lithuania, countries such as the UK, the US and Australia host offices that are usually known as \u201cTaipei\u201d representative offices, which avoids the implication of statehood and sovereignty.<\/p>\n<p>Additional reporting by Reuters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Fion Khan \/ Staff writer, with CNA The name of the Taiwanese Representative Office in Lithuania was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7706,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[93],"tags":[6449,1547,171,1808,1549,6448,6451,170,6450],"class_list":{"0":"post-7705","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-vilnius","8":"tag-fion-khan","9":"tag-inga-ruginiene","10":"tag-lithuania","11":"tag-ministry-of-foreign-affairs","12":"tag-taiwan-lithuania","13":"tag-taiwanese-representative-offic","14":"tag-the-taipei-times","15":"tag-vilnius","16":"tag-6450"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7705\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}