"We greatly appreciate the contribution and support Portugal delivers to strengthen the eastern borders of NATO, security of the Baltic region and Lithuania in the face of increasing tensions after Russia's aggression against Ukraine," the Lithuanian Minister of National Defence Raimundas Karoblis said on July 30 in the Air Base of the Lithuanian Air Face in Šiauliai, where he met with the Portuguese Defence Minister José Azeredo Lopes.

The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Linas Linkevičius, together with the Ministers of Spain, Poland, Romania and Hungary, signed a joint letter to the European Trade Commissioner Cecilia Malmström, calling for an extension of anti-dumping duties imposed on imports of ammonium nitrate fertilizers from Russia.

Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis has met with the delegation of the US Congress to discuss the US-Lithuanian relations and the security challenges in the region.

On 2 August, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Linas Linkevičius met with the United States congressional, which was headed by Hal Rogers, Chairman of the State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Subcommittee of the United States House of Representatives Committee on Appropriations. The meeting focused on the Lithuania-U.S. cooperation in response to Russian threat, sanctions, energy security, and support for the spread of democracy.

On August 2 the change of command ceremony of the NATO enhanced Forward Presence Battle Group in Lithuania will be held in Rukla. Lieutenant Colonel Wolf Rüdiger Otto, who has been in command of NATO enhanced Forward Presence Battle Group for six months, will be replaced by the new rotation Commander Lieutenant Colonel Rene Braun. The ceremony will be attended by Vice Minister of National Defence of Lithuania Vytautas Umbrasas, Commander of the Lithuanian Land Force Brigadier General Valdemaras Rupšys, other military officials, representatives from local authorities.

On July 27 new Defence Attaché of the Czech Republic Colonel Romana Pešatová was accredited to Lithuania and outgoing Defence Attaché Lieutenant Colonel Tomáš Říman farewelled at a ceremony at the Ministry of National Defence.

A meeting was held at the Office of the Government to discuss the problems of operations involving rescue of drowning persons carried out on the coat of the Baltic Sea and inland water bodies.

The First Deputy Chancellor of the Government, Deividas Matulionis, has met with the outgoing Slovenian Ambassador to Lithuania, Robert Krmelj, who resided in Warsaw.

The Government approved the proposals by the Ministry of the Interior on improving the registration of administrative offenses by maximizing the automation as regards speeding offence detection, information procession, and issuance and sending out of process documents.

Minister of National Defence Raimundas Karoblis will meet with Minister of National Defence of Portugal José Azeredo Lopes and his delegation, including Chief of General Staff of the Portuguese Armed Forces Admiral Antonio Silva Ribeiro. On July 29 the guests will visit the Lithuanian Grand Duke Butigeidis Dragoon Battalion in Klaipėda and the Lithuanian Air Force Base in Šiauliai – on July 30.