On 22 December, at the meeting of the Security Council of the United Nations (UN SC), Permanent Representative of Lithuania to the United Nations (UN), Ambassador Raimonda Murmokaitė urged the international community to seek responsibility for the crimes against humanity being committed in North Korea.

The Government of Lithuania 23 December approved of the proposal of the Foreign Ministry to establish the Consulate General of Lithuania in Los Angeles, USA.

Energy, national and social security, scientific achievements were the highlights of 2014 in Lithuania, says Virginija Budiene, chief presidential advisor on interior policy.

Media representatives are welcome at the euro adoption event to be held on the night of 1 January. Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius, together with the Estonian colleague Taavi Roivas and Latvian Foreign Minister Edgars Rinkevičs, will make the withdrawal of the first banknotes of the new Lithuanian currency, the euro. The event will also be attended by Finance Minister Rimantas Šadžius and Chairman of the Board of the Bank of Lithuania Vitas Vasiliauskas.

Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite has signed the state budget for 2015. This is the very first state budget drafted in euros.

The Labour Party of Lithuania has decided to open its 62nd unit. The unit will be established outside Lithuania – in Spain – and will become the party's third unit operating abroad.

On 18 December Lithuania’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Ambassador Raimonda Murmokaitė, deposited the instrument of ratification for the Arms Trade Treaty that will enter into force on 24 December. “Lithuania is very happy to join a constantly increasing number of countries that ratified the Arms Trade Treaty. We are particularly glad to join before it enters into force”, said Lithuania’s Permanent Representative.

In an annual press conference held on 18 December 2014, Linas Linkevičius, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Lithuania, identified deepening of relations with EU Eastern partners, consistent support to Ukraine, active membership of the UN Security Council and economic diplomacy efforts as priority activities in 2014.

On the basis of the Constitution, and having regard to the decree of the President of the Republic of Lithuania Dalia Grybauskaite, the Seimas has ratified the Treaty establishing the European Stability Mechanism signed by the euro area countries in Brussels in 2012 and amended in 2014, and the documents relating thereto. This Law received 82 votes in favour, with 1 vote against and 1 abstention.

President Dalia Grybauskaitė is attending a European Council meeting. The focus of the meeting is on the economic situation in the European Union and measures to foster economic growth and investments.