Lithuania's Foreign Minister met with the U.S. Representative, Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs Ed Royce, the former Secretary of Defense (2013-2015) Chuck Hagel, the former U.S. Deputy Secretary of State (1993-2001), President of the most influential American think tank The Brookings Institution Strobe Talbott, and the former U.S. Under Secretary of Defense (2009-2012), Chief Executive Officer of the Center for a New American Security (CNAS) Michèle Flournoy, as well as other U.S. experts on defense and security.

In a detailed debate with editors and reporters at The Washington Times, Lithuania's Foreign Minister discussed Russian propaganda, the refugee crisis, the war in Ukraine and Syria, and answered questions about security in the EU and Lithuania. Later that day, Linkevičius visited the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and paid tribute to millions of victims who were deliberately starved to death as a result of Stalin's policies that led to the Holodomor in Ukraine.

On 9 December, Lithuania's Foreign Minister continued to hold meetings at the United States Congress, the White House and the Department of State. Linkevičius met with the minority leader of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs Eliot Engel, the Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Russia and Central Asia Celeste Wallander, the U.S. Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Thomas Shannon, and experts of the Hudson Institute.

Later that day, Lithuania's Foreign Minister left for New York, where he will attend a meeting initiated by Lithuania at the UN Security Council on Ukraine to discuss the implementation of the Minsk agreements and the human rights situation in the occupied territories of Ukraine. Lithuania's Foreign Minister will also discuss the critical human rights situation in eastern Ukraine with the United Nations Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights Šimonović.