President Dalia Grybauskaitė accepted letters of credence from the Ambassador of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kemal Muftić.

Ten days remain for Ukraine and the European Union to take crucial decisions to sign the Association Agreement in Vilnius Summit, Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius said at the EU Foreign Affairs Council on November 18 in Brussels.

On behalf of the Lithuanian people and on her own behalf, President Dalia Grybauskaitė extended congratulations to President Andris Bērziņš of Latvia on the 95th anniversary of Latvia's Independence.

President Dalia Grybauskaitė met with the Secretary-General of the United Nations (UN), Ban Ki-moon, who is visiting Lithuania for the first time. The meeting focused on Lithuania's preparations to work in one of the principal organs of the United Nations - the Security Council. The topics discussed also included today's biggest challenges to global security and other urgent issues on the UN agenda.

On Monday, 18 November, at 10:00 a.m., President Dalia Grybauskaitė will meet with Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General of the United Nations (UN) - one of the most influential organizations in the world. This is the first visit by the UN Secretary-General to Lithuania since regaining its independence.

On 18-19 November Lithuanian Minister of National Defence Juozas Olekas will attend the European Union Foreign Affairs Council where together with the colleagues J. Olekas will be discussing the ongoing preparations for the December European Council on defence and proposals for the discussion of the Heads of States.

Today, President Dalia Grybauskaitė is leaving for a working visit to Georgia where she will attend the inauguration of the President of Georgia, Giorgi Margvelashvili.

President Dalia Grybauskaitė accepted letters of credence from Mongolia's Ambassador to Lithuania Adiya Ganbaatar.

As one of the key questions during the ECOFIN Council meeting in Brussels on November 15, the Lithuanian Presidency will hold discussions on the Single Resolution Mechanism (SRM) seeking to reach agreement that would enable negotiations with the European Parliament to start. The EU finance ministers will also address taxation-related questions and backstops arrangements for banks in the context of the upcoming asset quality review and stress tests.

The Vilnius summit of the Eastern Partnership on 28-29 November could prove to be a milestone for EU-Ukraine relations, as both sides expect to sign the association agreement that would bring the country closer to the EU. Today EP envoys Pat Cox and Aleksander Kwasniewski present their report on the Tymoshenko case during the Conference of Presidents. We talked about it with Paweł Kowal, a Polish member of the ECR group who is the chair of the EU-Ukraine Parliamentary Cooperation Committee.