On 24 September, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Linas Linkevičius took part in the leading annual transatlantic security conference in Washington, D.C. - the CEPA Forum - and discussed cooperation between the countries of Europe and North America in response to common security challenges.

The European Commission is at the One Planet Summit in New York to present to global leaders the progress made on the ambitious initiatives it revealed in Paris last year.

President Dalia Grybauskaitė received letters of credence from Ambassador Shiro Yamasaki of Japan.

The European Union and its leaders fully respect the UK’s decision expressed in the referendum on leaving the EU.

At its plenary on 20 September, the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) invited the initiators of the European Citizens' Initiative Minority SafePack – represented by Loránt Vincze, president of the Federal Union of European Nationalities – to present their request, which is aimed at improving the protection of national and linguistic minorities in Europe.

The European Commission and the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy today adopted a Joint Communication that sets out the EU's vision for a new and comprehensive strategy to better connect Europe and Asia.

European leaders who have gathered for an informal summit in the fourth largest Austrian city of Salzburg are discussing long-term measures to tackle illegal migration.

President Dalia Grybauskaitė is leaving for Salzburg to attend an informal European Council meeting, which will focus on finding urgent and effective solutions to critical EU problems.

The digital agenda, globalisation and development aid will be discussed by MEPs and Latin-American parliamentarians next week in Vienna.

On 14 September, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Linas Linkevičius met with the EU Special Representative for Central Asia, Ambassador Peter Burian. They discussed the development of relations between the EU and Central Asia, with an emphasis on a new EU Strategy for Central Asia, which would be adopted in 2019.