On Tuesday, President Gitanas Nausėda held a telephone conversation with the President of the European Council, Charles Michel, to discuss the situation at the external border with Belarus.

The Prime Minister of Lithuania has discussed the latest developments on the EU-Belarus border with Poland’s Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki and Latvia’s Prime Minister Krišjānis Kariņš.

On Monday, President Gitanas Nausėda and President Andrzej Duda of Poland had a telephone conversation and discussed the situation at the Polish border with Belarus.

On Friday, President Gitanas Nausėda attended the 40th Session of the Baltic Assembly.

On 26 October, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Gabrielius Landsbergis participated in the Bucharest Nine (B9) meeting of the Foreign Ministers in Tallinn, Estonia. The meeting focused on the security situation in the region and Europe, the implementation of the NATO 2030 agenda, and NATO’s new strategic concept.

President Gitanas Nausėda is currently in Glasgow for the World Leaders Summit at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP26). On Tuesday, the President addressed world leaders at the plenary session.

The new draft law would set tighter cybersecurity obligations in terms of risk management, reporting obligations and information sharing.

October 28, Minister of National Defence Arvydas Anušauskas met with the new Ambassador of France to Lithuania HE Alix Victoria Everard for a discussion on the most topical aspects of security and defence cooperation between the two countries.

Tetas, a company of the EPSO-G group implementing the project for the construction of a physical barrier on the border with Belarus, has started installing 4-metre-high fence segments on key sections. Firstly, fence segments are being installed in the border section near Druskininkai, where concertina wire has already been laid. On Wednesday, EPSO-G representatives have presented the progress of the work to the Project Supervision Commission chaired by the Prime Minister.

On Tuesday, President Gitanas Nausėda met for the first time with the new President of Estonia, Alar Karis, who is on a working visit to Lithuania.