On 3 July, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Japan Toshimitsu Motegi will be paying a working visit to Lithuania. During the visit, the Foreign Minister of Japan will hold a meeting with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Gabrielius Landsbergis. Delegations of Lithuania and Japan will discuss bilateral relations, cooperation within international organisations, regional and international issues.

The Commission announced €20 million in humanitarian funding to be provided in Algeria, Egypt and Libya. The funding will support the most vulnerable people affected by the region's political and protracted crises; the over four-decade-long Sahrawi refugee crisis in Algeria, the volatile Libyan crisis, and the refugees and asylum seekers in Egypt.

EU legislators reached a political agreement on Thursday on the 5 billion euro Brexit Adjustment Reserve, paving the way for a first payment by December.

On 17-18 June, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs holds the informal Midsummer Snow Meeting, which will bring Lithuanian and foreign security experts together to discuss challenges posed to the transatlantic community and responses to them.

The EU-US summit on 15 June 2021 marked the beginning of a renewed transatlantic partnership and set a joint agenda for EU-US cooperation in the post-pandemic era. The leaders committed to regular dialogue to take stock of progress.

On June 15-16, President Gitanas Nausėda is leaving on an official visit to Sweden. During his visit, the President will meet with King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden, Prime Minister Stefan Löfven, and Speaker of the Riksdag Andreas Norlén.

At the NATO Summit, President Gitanas Nausėda together with President Egils Levits of Latvia and Prime Minister Kaja Kallas of Estonia had a talk with Joe Biden, President of the United States. During the conversation with the three Baltic leaders, the U.S. President expressed strong support and determination of the United States to contribute to reliable deterrence and defense in the context of increasing geopolitical tensions in the NATO’s Eastern Flank.

On the eve of the NATO Summit in Brussels, President Gitanas Nausėda met with President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan of Turkey. At the meeting, security and defense issues in the Baltic Sea and in the Black Sea were discussed.

At the meeting with President Salome Zourabichvili of Georgia, while on an official visit in Georgia, President Gitanas Nausėda expressed support to the European and Euro-Atlantic aspirations, implementation of reforms and consolidation of democracy of this South Caucasian country.

On Thursday, Parliament adopted three resolutions on the human rights situation at the Spanish/Moroccan border, in Russia, and in Sri Lanka.