Egidijus Bickauskas, the Lithuanian representative, said after the meeting that there had been very little movement in the direction of a true dialogue with the Kremlin.

They also provided the funding required to send the Lithuanian representatives to Eurovision Song Contest 2010.

After Lithuanian protests, two Prussian Lithuanian representatives were admitted to the Directorate, increasing its size to nine members.

It was succeeded as Lithuanian representative at the 2002 Contest by Aivaras with "Happy You".

It was succeeded as Lithuanian representative at the 2006 contest by LT United with "We Are the Winners".

The song was therefore succeeded as Lithuanian representative at the 2001 Contest by Skamp with "You Got Style".

This voting rule will not apply in the "Super-final", where the Lithuanian representative for Baku will be decided via jury voting alone.

The Lithuanian representative in Baku will be awarded 15,000 litai (€4,308).

Later he was interested in German, French, Lithuanian representatives of Expressionism.

Stasys Lozoraitis Jr., the senior Lithuanian representative in Washington, said: "It is a very happy day.