Venezuela’s government must ensure the full restoration of the democratic order and immediately release all political prisoners, urged Parliament on Thursday.

Statement by High Representative/Vice-President Federica Mogherini on the Twentieth Anniversary of the entry into force of the Chemical Weapons Convention and the founding of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons.

Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, Pavlo Klimkin, paid a working visit to Vilnius on 24 April. He had a meeting with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania, Linas Linkevičius, where intensive bilateral cooperation was discussed and the necessity to continue developing economic ties was endorsed.

Statement by High Representative/Vice-President Federica Mogherini on the killing of an OSCE SMM monitor in a non-government controlled part of eastern Ukraine.

High Representative and Vice-President Federica Mogherini holds bilateral meetings during her visit to India.

Antonio Tajani stressed the importance of a deal to safeguard people’s rights in the wake of Brexit during a meeting with UK Prime Minister Theresa May this morning. "The European Parliament's message is clear: strongly defending their interests is our first priority,” he said. The Parliament President was in London to discuss the institution’s position on the Brexit negotiations, which was adopted in plenary on 5 April. He also invited May to address the Parliament.

On 20 April in Prague, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Linas Linkevičius met with Lubomír Zaorálek, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic. The meeting discussed topical issues of bilateral and regional cooperation, the European Union and NATO, security and defence, the Eastern Neighbourhood and energy security.

The European Commission launches a new initiative for the sustainable development of the blue economy in the Western Mediterranean region.

s two of the three biggest economies and leading traders in the world, the EU and China have a deep and comprehensive partnership. Having established official diplomatic ties in 1975, the EU and China can now build on a broad-based framework of bilateral relations. Under the umbrella of the annual EU-China Summit, EU-China relations today encompass over sixty substantive and sectoral dialogues. The EU-China 2020 Strategic Agenda for Cooperation, adopted in 2013, is the highest-level joint document in EU-China relations, setting out cooperation in the areas of peace, prosperity, sustainable development and people-to-people exchanges.

Statement by the Spokesperson on the latest developments in Libya.