(L-R) Lithuania's President Dalia Grybauskaite is welcomed by Sweden's Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt and Foreign Minister Carl Bildt, whose country currently holds the rotating Presidency of EU, ahead of a two-day European Union leaders summit in Brussels October 29, 2009. Reuters Pictures 1 month ago

(L-R) Lithuania's President Dalia Grybauskaite is welcomed by Sweden's Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt and Foreign Minister Carl Bildt, whose country currently holds the rotating Presidency of EU, ahead of a two-day European Union leaders summit in Brussels October 29, 2009.

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