President Dalia Grybauskaitė extended congratulations to swimmer Rūta Meilutytė on winning the silver medal in 50m breaststroke at the World Swimming Championship in Spain.

On Sunday, taking part at the commemoration ceremony of the 600th Anniversary of the Baptism of Samogitians in Telšiai, Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius delivered a congratulatory address. Please find the text of the address below.

During his working visit in Lithuania, Didier Burkhalter, Head of the Department of Foreign Affairs of Switzerland took close interest in the implementation of Swiss-Lithuanian Cooperation Programme aiming to improve conditions for women in childbirth and for their newborn babies, to facilitate the modernisation of antiquated hospital infrastructures in Lithuanian hospitals, informs LETA/ELTA.

President Dalia Grybauskaitė together with President Shimon Peres of Israel, who is currently on a state visit to Lithuania, visited the Tolerance Center of the Vilna Gaon State Jewish Museum. Later, the Presidents of Lithuania and Israel honored the memory of the victims of the Holocaust at the Paneriai Memorial.

Nerijus Numavičius, the largest shareholder of Vilniaus Prekyba Group, remains the richest person in Lithuania with assets worth 3.6 billion litas (EUR 1.04b), according to a list of the country's wealthiest people published by the Veidas magazine.

From August a Lithuanian officer will join the European Union-led Training Mission in Mail (EUTM). The officer, captain of the Logistics Command of the Lithuanian Armed Forces, will be posted to a logistic unit at the airfield of Bamako where he is due to serve as a transportation operations control officer.

On July 25 a new unit made up of members of the Lithuanian Armed Forces was formally deployed to Afghanistan in Klaipėda. The unit which will be in charge of protecting the Head of the Special Mission of the Republic of Lithuania in Afghanistan is formed by six members of the Klaipėda Garrison of the Military Police.