on Wednesday, May 1, at 12 a.m. an official commemoration and a public celebration will be held in Daukantas square next to the Presidential Palace to mark the 15th anniversary of Lithuania‘s membership of the European Union.

On 25 April, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius congratulated Volodymyr Zelenski, who has been elected President of Ukraine, in Kiev.

On April 24 a team of arms control inspectors of the Russian Federation are conducting an evaluation visit to the Motorised Infantry Brigade Griffin of the Lithuanian Land Force according to the requirements of the Vienna Document 2011 of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE).

President Dalia Grybauskaitė extended profound condolences on behalf of the Lithuanian people over the bombings in Sri Lankan cities which claimed over two hundred lives and overshadowed the Easter Sunday to all believers.

Hungary is scheduled to be the lead nation for NATO’s Baltic Air Policing mission at Šiauliai, Lithuania, together with augmenting nations Spain and the United Kingdom.

MEPs deplore human rights violations and all forms of political repression in Brunei, China and Cameroon.

During the last plenary session before May’s elections, MEPs approved new measures requiring life-saving technologies in vehicles and EU-wide standards to protect whistle-blowers.

On 10 April, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) published the “Official Development Assistance 2018 – Preliminary Data”.

Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis, currently attending the 8th Summit of Central and Eastern European Countries & China in Dubrovnik, met with Head of Government of the People’s Republic of China, Li Keqiang. The meeting has resulted in a long-awaited agreement: China is opening up its market for Lithuanian agricultural production.