Algirdas Butkevičius, Head of the Seimas Delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), and Egidijus Vareikis, Deputy Head of the Delegation, who are currently attending the PACE session in Strasbourg, and their colleagues from Estonia, Georgia, Latvia, and Ukraine have signed a statement on establishing the Baltic Plus Group and abstaining from taking part in the celebrations of the 70th anniversary of the Council of Europe.

The Agriculture and Rural Development Committee on Tuesday resumed the 1 October hearing of the Polish candidate for the agriculture portfolio, Janusz Wojciechowski.

President Gitanas Nausėda welcomed foreign leaders of the energy sector at the Second Ministerial Meeting on the Partnership for Transatlantic Energy Cooperation (P-TEC) in Vilnius. The President is the patron of this event dedicated to fostering transatlantic energy cooperation.

President Gitanas Nausėda will meet with President Egils Levits of Latvia who comes for a working visit to Lithuania.

The Agriculture and Rural Development Committee questioned the Polish candidate for the agriculture portfolio Janusz Wojciechowski on EU farm policy reform and trade negotiations.

This note provides information on the election of the new Commission and the hearings of the Commissioners-designate, which start on 30 September.

Parliament and Council negotiators agreed on appointing Laura Codruţa Kövesi, MEPs’ preferred choice to be the first head of the new EU Public Prosecutor’s Office.

On 25 September, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Linas Linkevičius spoke at a high-level United Nations event, which focused on challenges facing Mali and the Sahel, as well as proactive measures to counter extremist narratives and ideologies.

On 24 September, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Linas Linkevičius met with the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade of the Marshall Islands John M. Silk and signed a Joint Communiqué on the Establishment of Diplomatic on the margins of the UN General Assembly in New York.

On 23 September, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Linas Linkevičius attended the second Ministerial Meeting on Advancing Responsible State Behavior in Cyberspace. The event was hosted by the U.S. Deputy Secretary of State John J. Sullivan.