Chairperson-in-Office of Organization of Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), Minister of Foreign Affairs of Switzerland Didier Burkhalter chose Mr. Vaidotas Verba, Lithuania Ambassador, as OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine.

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has refused to support Russia's import ban against the countries that have imposed sanctions against Russia.

Lithuanian Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs Andrius Krivas presented Lithuania's priorities for 4-5 September 2014 NATO Summit in Wales to newly selected US general officers and flag officers.

President Dalia Grybauskaitė met with the Minister of Economy and acting Prime Minister, Evaldas Gustas, and Minister of Agriculture Virginija Baltraitienė to discuss Kremlin's political decision to restrict the imports of agricultural products, raw materials and food from the countries that imposed sanctions on Russia.

President Dalia Grybauskaitė invites to react calmly to Russian President Vladimir Putin's threats to ban or restrict for one year the imports of agricultural products, raw materials or food from the countries that imposed sanctions on Russia.

On August 5 Defence Attachés of Norway to Lithuania rotated at a formal ceremony at the Ministry of National Defence. Colonel Britt Brestrup was replaced by Colonel Laila Lie, the newly appointed Norway’s Defence Attaché in Lithuania, in the position.

VILNIUS: Lithuania's foreign minister has asked India to stand true to its promise of starting an embassy in Vilnius.

Jean-Claude Juncker's first official visit to an EU Member State as President-elect will be to Athens, Greece on 4 August 2014.

President Dalia Grybauskaitė extended congratulations to the President of the Swiss Confederation, Didier Burkhalter, on National Day.

On 22 July, the Lithuanian Government approved a new Prison Modernisation Programme, which provides for the modernisation of detention facilities by 2022. Four of the proposed programme projects will be implemented on a public-private partnership (PPP) basis.