U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney will visit Lithuania to address a May 4 summit of leaders from the Baltic and Black Sea regions before traveling to Kazakhstan and Croatia, the vice president's office announced Wednesday. President George W. Bush “asked Vice President Cheney to join the leaders from Europe at the summit to emphasize the importance of the region's democratic transformation and to advance the president's freedom agenda,” Cheney's office said in a statement. In Vilnius, Lithuania, the U.S. vice president will deliver a speech and conduct bilateral meetings with the region's leaders. Cheney will then travel to Kazakhstan, where he will meet with President Nursultan Nazarbayev “to strengthen our bilateral relationship on the basis of our shared strategic interests and desire to promote democratic reform and economic development,” the statement said. In Croatia, the U.S. vice president will meet with leaders and will join multi-party talks with officials from Croatia, Albania, and Macedonia.
