On August 2, Mantvydas Bekešius, Lithuanian Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs, saw off, at the Vilnius International Airport, a group of 14 Ukrainian children from Luhansk and Donetsk regions, returning to their home country after spending the entire school year 2015–2016 in Lithuania where they attended school at Vilnius Lithuanians’ House.

President Dalia Grybauskaitė extended congratulations, both personally and on behalf of the Lithuanian people, to President Barack Obama of the United States of America on his 55th birthday.

President Juncker announced his intention to allocate the Security Union portfolio to Sir Julian King, the candidate for Commissioner from the United Kingdom.

President Dalia Grybauskaitė extended congratulations, both personally and on behalf of the Lithuanian people, to President Johann Schneider-Ammann of the Swiss Confederation on national day.

On July 25 an updated Protocol of Amendment to the agreement of military cooperation between the Ministry of Defence of Kazakhstan and the Ministry of National Defence of Lithuania of 2008 was signed in Astana, Kazakhstan. The document stipulates cooperation between the two countries in defence policy, personnel training, logistics, regional security, and other areas of interest for both parties.

The EU is delivering on its commitment to speed up the implementation of the Facility for Refugees in Turkey bringing the total amount mobilised to more than €2 billion to finance actions in the field of health, education, socio-economic support as well as humanitarian assistance for Syrian refugees.

In his letter of 25 July 2016 to Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs of Germany, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Linas Linkevičius, expressed condolences over the brutal attacks in Munich, Reutlingen and Ansbach which took the lives of ten innocent people and left many more injured.

On behalf of the Lithuanian people and on her own behalf, President Dalia Grybauskaitė extended condolences to Emperor Akihito of Japan over the tragic attack in Sagamihara that left dozens of people dead and many injured.

Commissioner Stylianides announces €104 million for live-saving humanitarian assistance during his third visit to Baghdad, Iraq.

On 22 July, Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius received Deborah A. McCarthy, the outgoing Ambassador of the United Stated of America to Lithuania. The Minister thanked the Ambassador for her personal contribution to the development of the strategic partnership between Lithuania and the USA and efforts to strengthen the security of Lithuania and the region.