Deborah Ann McCarthy, of Florida, a Career Member of the Senior Foreign Service, Class of Minister-Counselor, to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the Republic of Lithuania.

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Anne Elizabeth Derse, of Maryland, a Career Member of the Senior Foreign Service, Class of Minister-Counselor, to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the Republic of Lithuania.

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The projects examined by the Court of Auditors were in the Czech Republic, Italy and Lithuania.

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The first, comprising the poorest eight new members - Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and Malta - will have a fifth of the EU population but on average just 42% of the GNP per capita.

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This coming together of officials from Scotland, Spain, the Czech Republic, Lithuania and Liechtenstein is hardly likely to have supporters drooling in anticipation.

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Lithuania, the Slovak Republic and Belgium also derive more than half of their electricity from nuclear plants.

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It has been closely involved with preparations for membership by the five most developed Eastern European countries - Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, and Slovenia - and the three Baltic nations of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, who are all expected to join the EU in 2004.

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