President Dalia Grybauskaitė is attending the inauguration of the newly elected Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko in Kyiv. The Lithuanian President congratulated the people of Ukraine on having made decisions of great importance for the future of their country and wished all political parties to join together for the good of the state and nation.

President Dalia Grybauskaitė extended sincere congratulations, on behalf of the Lithuanian people and on her own behalf, to His Majesty King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden on the occasion of National Day.

President Dalia Grybauskaitė extended congratulations, on behalf of the Lithuanian people and on her own behalf, to Her Majesty Queen Margrethe II and all the people of Denmark on national holiday - Constitution Day.

President Dalia Grybauskaitė attended a meeting between Baltic and Central European leaders and U.S. President Barack Obama in Warsaw.

President Dalia Grybauskaitė will leave for a working visit to Poland. On June 3 in Warsaw, she will attend a meeting between the Baltic and Central European leaders and U.S. President Barack Obama, and on 4 June, at the invitation of Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski will participate in the celebration of the 25th anniversary of Poland's movement for freedom.

"We are deeply concerned by the recent arrests and detentions of a large number of peaceful human rights defenders, lawyers and intellectuals including Pu Zhijiang, a lawyer, Hu Shigen a lecturer at Beijing University, Xu Youyu, a researcher at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Liu Di, a writer and Hao Jian, a professor at the Beijing Film Academy.

On Friday (30 May) afternoon a trilateral meeting on energy security between EU Energy Commissioner Oettinger, Russian Energy Minister Novak and Ukrainian Energy Minister Prodan took place in Berlin.

With the elections over, many of the newly elected MEPs are now coming together to form or join transnational political groups in the Parliament on the basis of their political affinities. Political groups enjoy certain advantages, but to be recognised as a group, they need to meet some requirements. The official political groups forming the Parliament should be created by late June in time for the first plenary session on 1 July.

President Dalia Grybauskaitė extended congratulations, both personally and on behalf of the Lithuanian people, to President Serzh Sargsyan of Armenia on the occasion of national holiday - Republic Day and to President Ilham Aliyev of Azerbaijan on the occasion of national holiday - Republic Day.

A Lithuanian officer will conduct a six-month tour of duty in Operation Ocean Shield, NATO's counter piracy and armed robbery at sea mission in the Gulf of Aden and off the Horn of Africa, as of May 26.