Lietuvos garbės konsulatai Norvegijoje 1926–1940 metais
Lithuania’s Honour Consulates in Norway in 1926–1940

Summary/Abstract: The article deals with the following issues: to define stages in establishing and developing Lithuania’s Honour Consulate network in Norway, to investigate the motives and circumstances for the establishment of the General Honour Consulate in Oslo, Vice-consulate in Oslo, Consulates in Oslo and Bergen and to sequentially disclose the activities of these Consulates in political, cultural, and economic spheres in 1926–1940. The formation, functioning and development of Lithuania’s Honour Consulates in 1925–1940 can be divided into three stages: 1926, 1930–1931, and 1937. In 1926 the major goal was to get moral and political support in solving Lithuania’s problems concerning Vilnius and Klaipėda regions and to stimulate grain export to Norway. In 1930–1931 the major aim was to gain experienced and influential partners and through them disseminate Lithuanian culture in Norway. In 1937 the Consulates’ priorities were to increase agricultural production export, to develop commercial fleet, and to hold off anti-Lithuanian tendencies in the Norwegian mass media.

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