Lithuania's President Dalia Grybauskaite on Wednesday appointed Tomas Zilinskas, the director of the Interior Ministry's Public Security Policy Department, as the country's new minister of interior affairs, her spokeswoman said.

On April 12, the Lithuanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs hosted a seminar on Information Society and Media in Vilnius to mark the twentieth anniversary of the European Commission's Technical Assistance and Information Exchange (TAIEX) instrument. Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs Andrius Krivas opened the seminar which gathered representatives from the Western Balkans, Turkey and the Eastern Partnership countries.

Is it time for a new approach on migration? Italian S&D member Kashetu Kyenge and Maltese EPP member Roberta Metsola are calling for a comprehensive strategy including having binding targets for resettlement in each member state. MEPs debate and vote on their report on Tuesday 12 April from 8.30 CET. The two MEPs also answered questions about migration posed by our fans on Facebook. Watch the video to see what they had to say on issues such as the refugee crisis and the EU-Turkey agreement.

On April 4 representatives of Ministries of Defence of Lithuania and Kazakhstan endorsed a cooperation plan for 2016 during bilateral political consultations in Astana, Kazakhstan. Perspectives of cooperation between Lithuania and Kazakhstan were addressed at the event.

On April 10-16 Minister of National Defence Juozas Olekas will conduct a formal visit to the United States of America.

Loreta Graužinienė, Speaker of the Seimas, has received Mikheil Janelidze, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Georgia, who came with the official visit to Lithuania. The officials expressed their satisfaction with intensive, bilateral political, economic and cultural cooperation that is taking on ever more novel forms.

On 5 April, Loreta Graužinienė, Speaker of the Seimas, met with Inara Mūrniece, Speaker of the Saeima, in Kroņauce close to the Lithuanian and Latvian border. The Speakers addressed issues of bilateral cooperation, regional policy, Nordic–Baltic co-operation (NB8) and Eastern Partnership. The interlocutors also focused on strengthening of regional security, solutions to migration problems and preparation for NATO's Summit in Warsaw, which is due on 8–9 July.

On 4 April, the Government's meeting approved the priorities of the Republic of Lithuania in the Executive Board of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and the guidelines for coordination of activities of institutions in this international organization for the 2015-2019 period.

EU-Turkey relations top the Parliament's agenda this week as the civil liberties committee is set to debate the deal on migration and refugees. It also looks at measures to combat terrorism following the attacks in Brussels on 22 March and the extraordinary summit held by the EU's justice ministers on 24 March. In addition committees also discuss how EU institutions spent the 2014 budget and funding for more staff at Europol's counter-terrorism centre.