Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius has extended congratulations to the Estonian people and Prime Minister Taavi Roivas on the occasion of the 97th Anniversary of the Independence of Estonia.

The one-day plenary session on Wednesday is dedicated to the energy union, the outcome of the recent Council summit and a discussion with European Central Bank President Mario Draghi. Meanwhile parliamentary committees will this week discuss emissions trading and making use of passenger name records for EU flights in the fight against terrorism. EP President Martin Schulz will welcome the King and the Queen of Belgium and meet with Volodymyr Groysman, speaker of the Ukrainian parliament.

On 21-26 February, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Linas Linkevičius will pay a working visit to the United States of America. In New York he will take part in an open debate of the United Nations Security Council on international peacekeeping and ensuring security, will meet the United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, Foreign Ministers of China, the United Arab Emirates and New Zealand.

On 20 February 2015, the Confederation of Lithuanian Industrialists (LPK) together with the Ukrainian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (USPP) signed an agreement, establishing a permanent representation of Ukrainian business in Brussels.

On 17 February, the UN Security Council adopted unanimously Resolution 2202, which welcomes the Declaration of Ukraine, France, Germany and the Russian Federation on support of the "Package of measures for the Implementation of the Minsk Accords", adopted on 12 February in Minsk.

"Lithuania supports the leadership of Germany and its Chancellor Angela Merkel in resolving the issue of Ukraine. This mission requires considerable wisdom, negotiating power and great personal commitment, which may not be undervalued in the face of this profound historical crisis," said Social Democrat Gediminas Kirkilas, Deputy Speaker of the Seimas, Chair of the Committee on European Affairs, in his meeting with Jutta Schmitz, Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to the Republic of Lithuania.

Prime Minister of Lithuania Algirdas Butkevicius has met with the first in-coming Ambassador of Israel to Lithuania Amir Maimon. The prime minister has welcomed the newly-appointed ambassador, discussed prospects for cooperation, and touched on other topical matters.

On 15-16 February, Lithuania's Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs Andrius Krivas participated in the 8th Europe-Ukraine Forum in Lodz, Poland. At the discussion on the EU-Ukraine negotiations, Lithuania's Foreign Vice-Minister stressed that while Ukraine was fighting against Russia's aggression and trying to implement reforms the need of systematic assistance of Western countries and institutions was of vital importance, and it should include economic, financial, humanitarian, advisory and military assistance to Ukraine.

A majority of European citizens cheered the role that the European Parliament played in the election of the new Commission President, says the 2014 Parlameter survey, published on Friday. More Europeans now feel that their voice counts in EU-level decision making. Over half the respondents said that EU membership is a good thing.

"Lithuanian and Polish security is indivisible. We are more than neighbours tied together by a long mutual history – we are parts of the same security space that is indivisible," Lithuanian Defence Minister Juozas Olekas said at a meeting with Minister of Defence of Poland Tomasz Siemoniak in Vilnius.