President Dalia Grybauskaitė met with participants of the International Conference “Restoring European and Transatlantic Resilience” including influential members of the United States Congress, German Bundestag and European Parliament, U.S. Special Representative for Ukraine Kurt Volker as well as experts on foreign and security policy.

Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis visited the Jonava district and met with the representatives of organisations associating farmers of the region as well as of the country to discuss the issues at stake.

Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis bided farewell to the outgoing Japan Ambassador in Lithuania Toyoei Shigeeda.

On August 14 directors of the NATO Energy Security Centre of Excellence (ENSECCOE) rotated during a formal ceremony. From August 2014 ENSECCOE in Vilnius was headed by Col Gintautas Bagdonas who will now be succeeded by Col Romualdas Petkevičius.

Monday, August 13, the Government approved the new Cyber Security Strategy. The document drawn up by the Ministry of National Defence sets key directions of national cyber security policy in public and private sectors for the coming five years and embeds regulations of the European Union Directive on Security of Network and Information Systems (the NIS Directive).

On 10 August, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Linas Linkevičius received the outgoing Ambassador of the Netherlands to Lithuania Gijsbert Hendrik Christiaan van der Lingen. At the meeting, the Foreign Minister welcomed Lithuania's continuously expanding relations with the Netherlands, the close cooperation and highest political level contacts – the visit of the Dutch royal family to Lithuania on 13-15 June of this year.

On 2 August, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Linas Linkevičius and the United States Assistant Secretary of the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs A. Wess Mitchell discussed strategic security cooperation between Lithuania and the U.S. The U.S. representative reaffirmed that the country's policy towards Russia and close cooperation with the Baltic states remained unchanged.

Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis participated in the time capsule-laying ceremony of the construction of the company Vakarų medienos grupė in Akmenė.

On 20 July, the Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Albinas Zananavičius is participating in the General Affairs Council (Article 50) in Brussels. The Council discussed issues dealing with Brexit and how the policy paper published by the UK government on 12 July 2018 could feed into the discussions. The EU's chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier briefed the ministers on the state of play in the Brexit negotiations and where the negotiations stand regarding the work to finalise the withdrawal agreement, including the backstop solution for the border between Ireland and Northern Ireland. M. Barnier also presented the recent Commission communication on preparedness.

German Armed Forces Tank Battalion Commander Lieutenant Colonel Rene Braun will be in command of the NATO enhanced Forward Presence Battalion Battle Group in Lithuania. He replaced Lieutenant Colonel Wolf Rüdiger Otto, who was in in command of the NATO enhanced Forward Presence Battalion Battle Group in Lithuania for last six months.