In consideration of the adverse effects on the national economy, social welfare system, as well as Lithuania’s national and social development caused by a complicated demographic situation in Lithuania, with steady emigration rates and the fertility rate below the generation replacement level, the Seimas endorsed the Strategy for the Demographic, Migration, and Integration Policy.

On September 18 Vice Minister Vytautas Umbrasas took part in the secretaries of U.S. and Nordic-Baltic ministries of defence meeting in Copenhagen (Denmark).

President Dalia Grybauskaitė will present Pope Francis, who will be visiting Lithuania, with a gift: the Freedom Bell of Lithuania and a recording of a unique music piece "Gloria Lietuvai."

Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis met with German Chancellor Angela Merkel to discuss the economic cooperation, regional security, defence and the need to strengthen energy security.

The Seimas adopted amendments to Article 22 of the Law on the Provision of Information to the Public to establish that producers and/or disseminators of public information and/or their participants, when announcing the news about suicides or suicide attempts, may not publish the motives, means and methods of committing suicides or suicide attempts, present suicide as a proper way of resolving any problem or as a natural daily reality, romanticise suicides, and show the process of committing suicide or the person who attempts or has committed suicide. The information on suicides or suicide attempts must contain a reference to the available emotional or psychological assistance and the self-support groups for the close ones of suicide victims.

President Dalia Grybauskaitė is attending the Three Seas Initiative Summit in Romania. Within this framework, the leaders the Baltic, the Black and the Adriatic Seas region have agreed on a list of priority infrastructure projects aimed at linking the twelve initiative countries with modern energy, transport and digital interconnections.

President Dalia Grybauskaitė is leaving for Bucharest to attend the Three Seas Initiative Summit. The summit, launched by the leaders of twelve countries bordering the Baltic, the Black and the Adriatic Seas, will focus on regional cooperation as well as on priority interconnectivity projects in the fields of energy, transport and digitalization.

President Dalia Grybauskaitė met with Angela Merkel, Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany.

The Lithuanian parliamentary parties have signed an Agreement on the guidelines for the Lithuanian defence at the Government Office.