On Monday, 4 September 2017, Viktoras Pranckietis, Speaker of the Seimas, met with Hirofumi Nakasone, Member of the Japanese Parliament, Chairman of Japan-Lithuania Friendship Diet Members’ League.

On 6 September in Vilnius, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Linas Linkevičius met with the member of the Japanese Parliament House of Councillors and the Chairman of Japan-Lithuania Friendship Diet Members’ League Hirofumi Nakasone.

While marking an anniversary of diplomatic relations, Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis and the Grand Chancellor of the Order of Malta, H.E. Albrecht Freiherr von Boeselager, signed a bilateral cooperation agreement.

Lithuania's Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis says he has secured firm Polish support to synchronization of electricity grid with Western Europe via the existing power link, however, the remaining two Baltic states are still doubtful about the possibility. Latvia also supports synchronization of power grids in the three Baltic states with the continental Europe via Poland, Prime Minister Maris Kucinskis (Greens/Farmers) said.

President Dalia Grybauskaitė met with Lt. Gen. Ben Hodges, Commanding General, of the United States European Command (EUCOM).

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President Dalia Grybauskaitė met with the members of the United States Congress delegation. Security situation with the upcoming military exercises “Zapad”, response to hybrid threats, cooperation between Lithuania and the United States in the fields of defense, energy and economics were discussed at the meeting.

After Latvia decided to ask for additional information from Lithuania and Estonia on a common liquefied natural gas (LNG) market deal, an advisor to the Lithuanian prime minister says that efforts to reach agreement with Latvia have failed and a two-way deal with Estonia will now be sought.

On 21 August this year, the Lithuanian State Defence Council held a meeting during which the decision to increase Lithuania’s participation in international operations was adopted. In the period from 2018 to 2019, the current level of the Lithuanian Armed Forces’ contribution to international operations and missions will be maintained. In addition to that, the Lithuanian Armed Forces will join NATO and Allied forces so as to reinforce the top priority fight against violent extremism organisations in Iraq and some of the Lithuanian troops will be deployed to the US-led coalition operation Spartan Shield in the Middle East.

On 28 August in Vilnius, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Linas Linkevičius met with the following heads of Ukraine’s anti-corruption institutions: the Director of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine Artem Sytnyk and the Deputy Director Gizo Uglava, the head of the Special Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office of Ukraine Nazar Kholodnitsky and the head of European Union’s Anti-Corruption Initiative in Ukraine Eka Tkeshelashvili.