President Dalia Grybauskaitė extended condolences, both personally and on behalf of the Lithuanian people, to German Federal President Joachim Gauck over the brutal shooting attack in Munich that killed innocent people.

A delegation of European Union officials visited Iran from 11-14 July to discuss deeper cooperation in the fields of economic policy, trade, investment and finance. The European Union is the largest integrated market in the world, comprising over 500 million people and represents a major opportunity for two-way economic and investment flows.

Jean Arthuis (ALDE, FR), Chair of the Committee on Budgets, travelled on Tuesday to the Gaza Strip. He visited EU-funded projects aimed at promoting sustainable economic development and empowerment of women as well as infrastructure projects in the water sector, such as the North Gaza Emergency Sewage Treatment Plant NGEST and recently inaugurated Water Desalination Plant in Deir Bala, next to Khan Yunis.

The European Union and Ukraine held their annual Human Rights Dialogue on 20 July 2016 in Kyiv. The EU-Ukraine Human Rights Dialogue was held for the second time as a dedicated full-day event since the start of the provisional application of the relevant parts of the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement. In the agreement, the EU and Ukraine express their mutual commitment to common values, in particular full respect for democratic principles, rule of law, good governance, human rights and fundamental freedoms.

Members of the Foreign Affairs Committee discussed the motives and the possible consequences of Turkey’s recent attempted coup with Enlargement Commissioner Johannes Hahn and representatives of the European External Action Service on Tuesday morning. MEPs emphasized that to ensure further accession talks, Turkey must stick to democracy, the rule of law and human rights.

On July 19 Minister of National Defence Juozas Olekas departs for Washington (USA) to attend a meeting of the Global Coalition to Counter-ISIL in Foreign and Defence Ministers format on July 20-21.

At a meeting in Vilnius with U.S. Secretary of the Air Force Deborah Lee James on July 15 Minister of National Defence Juozas Olekas underscored stronger cooperation between Lithuania and the U.S., support for shaping regional air defence architecture, deploying elements of air defence for in the regional for training and regional air defence exercises.

In response to an invitation by the Zambian authorities, the European Union has deployed an Election Observation Mission (EOM) to Zambia to observe the Presidential, Parliamentary, Mayoral and Council Chairpersons, and Local Government elections which are scheduled for 11 August. This is the fourth time that the European Union is observing elections in Zambia (previously in 2001, 2006 and 2011), which reflects the EU's long-term commitment to supporting credible, transparent and inclusive elections in the country.

About 90 people were killed and nearly 1,400 people detained associated with the coup - that is the statistic of the Turkey coup.

Death toll in Nice truck attack rises to 84, with 18 in critical condition.