Lithuania and the United States have signed a bilateral Security of Supply Arrangement (SOSA) on defence goods and services committing to support each other in the area of critical defence supplies. The SOSA was signed on October 27 during Defence Vice Minister Greta Monika Tučkutė’s official visit to Washington.

On 26–27 October 2023, Kazys Starkevičius, Chair of the Seimas Committee on Economics, Arminas Lydeka, Deputy Chair of the Committee on European Affairs, and Algirdas Butkevičius, Deputy Chair of the Committee on Budget and Finance, took part in the European Union (EU) Inter-Parliamentary Conference on Stability, Economic Coordination and Governance in Madrid.

On the occasion of 100 years of Lithuania’s membership in the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), President Gitanas Nausėda met on Monday morning with ITU Secretary-General Doreen Bogdan-Martin.

President Gitanas Nausėda continues his participation in the European Council in Brussels. During the Friday session, the European leaders discussed migration, economic and EU foreign policy issues. The Euro Summit was also held.

President Gitanas Nausėda is attending the European Council meeting in Brussels. The session on Thursday focused on the revision of the EU’s multiannual financial framework and Russia’s military aggression against Ukraine.

President Gitanas Nausėda will participate in the European Council meeting in Brussels on October 26-27.

Viktorija Čmilytė-Nielsen, Speaker of the Seimas, who is currently leading a Lithuanian business delegation in Taiwan, has stressed that our country appreciates its ties with Taiwan, which professes the same values as Lithuania. Cooperation between democracies is particularly important at a time when the world order based on international law is becoming fragmented.

“We cannot be afraid to reform and adapt to this ever-changing and increasingly geopolitical world”, said European Parliament President at a speech at the Humboldt University.

‘The financial statements of the European Union for the financial year 2022 offer a genuine and fair view of the situation, with revenue unaffected by error, but the level of error for expenditure from the EU budget of EUR 196 billion has increased significantly to 4.2 %. (compare with 3 % in 2021),’ underlined Ms Laima Liucija Andrikienė, Member of the European Court of Auditors (ECA), seconded by Lithuania, while presenting the ECA’s annual report on the implementation of the EU budget for the 2022 financial year at the joint meeting of the Seimas Committees on European Affairs and on Audit on 13 October 2023.

As part of the visit to Armenia, Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonytė met with Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian to discuss Armenia’s security challenges, the prospects for bilateral relations, Armenia’s cooperation with the European Union, and other relevant issues. At the end of the meeting, the Prime Ministers of the two countries held a joint press conference.