Residents of Vilnius and Kaunas have chosen new mayors, while incumbent mayor was re-elected in Klaipeda for another term.

MEPs called for binding human rights clauses in all EU international agreements in a vote on Thursday on the EU's report on human rights and democracy in 2013. Guaranteeing common standards for the reception of refugees, tackling Russia's "continuing slide towards authoritarian rule" and adopting a coherent approach to human rights in China were among the issues included in the resolution.

During the plenary session that took place from 9 to 12 March in Strasbourg, MEPs supported the legislation on capping credit card fees and warned candidate countries to get their act together if they want to progress on their path towards the EU. Parliament also debated the murder of Russian opposition politician Boris Nemtsov and called for greater efforts to abolish the gender pay gap.

Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius has met with the outgoing French Ambassador, Maryse Eveline Berniau, and thanked her for the contribution in fostering the bilateral relations as well as for the French participation in the NATO air policing mission in the Baltic States.

Security policy, Russia and creating growth and tackling unemployment were the top topics when President of the European Parliament Martin Schulz discussed current EU affairs with the EP's Facebook fans in a Facebook chat organised by the Parliament on Wednesday. Schulz stated that it is "important to get growth and jobs going again" and that "we should find a way to cooperate, if Russia wants to cooperate with us".

Prime Minister of Lithuania Algirdas Butkevicius has met with President of the Republic of Iceland, Olafur Ragnar Grimsson, for a working lunch to discuss the Nordic-Baltic cooperation, the economic situation in the region and relevant security issues.

Many MEPs called for solidarity among EU member states and concrete steps by the European Commission to aid road hauliers hit by Russian restrictions on food and farm produce imports from the EU, in a debate on Monday evening. The import ban's impact on hauliers has been neglected, even though the EU has taken measures to support producers of fruit, vegetables and dairy produce, said Transport Committee MEPs in a question tabled for debate with the Commission.

Marius Janukonis, Director of the Eastern Neighbourhood Policy Department at the Foreign Affairs Ministry, has been appointed as Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of Lithuania to Ukraine.

On 5 March, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Linas Linkevičius met with outgoing Ambassador of France to Lithuania Maryse Berniau and thanked for her efforts and a significant contribution to the development of relations between Lithuania and France.

On 4 March, Linas Linkevičius, Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs, met in Vilnius with Ambassador Ikram Adyrbekov, Senator of the Kazakh Parliament and Special Envoy of the President on the UN Security Council. Bilateral cooperation between Lithuania and Kazakhstan at the United Nations and within other international organizations and institutions were discussed at the meeting.