On 1 October in New York, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Linas Linkevičius and New Zealand's Foreign Minister Murray McCully signed a bilateral working holiday agreement, which will allow young people of both countries to study and gain work experience abroad.

Two new brutal attacks, two acts of terror have targeted Israelis in Jerusalem last night and early this morning. Two men died in the first attack and a woman and her two year old child were injured. A teenager was wounded in the second attack.

Commissioner Stylianides expresses condolences to the families of the victims affected by the bombing of a hospital in Kunduz earlier today and calls on all parties to the conflict to respect international humanitarian law and protect medical facilities.

On 1 October, Croatia officially announced its decision to open an Embassy in Vilnius by the end of this year.

More than 2 million children whose lives have been torn apart by the conflict in Syria will have better access to education in safe environments through an agreement signed today by the European Union (EU) and UNICEF.

In the context of the efforts to help addressing the plight of the refugees in the wider Middle East region, the European Union (EU) announced that it will support Palestine refugees with fresh funding totalling € 30 million.

Germany, Belgium and Italy should get over €14.6 million in EU aid to help more than 7,300 workers made redundant by three firms get back on to the job market, following a vote by the budgets committee on Tuesday. The European Globalisation Adjustment Fund (EGF) aid still needs to be approved by Parliament as a whole and by the Council of the EU.

Parliament's Committee of Foreign affairs held an exchange of views with Mohammed bin Amin Al-Jefri, Deputy Speaker of the Majlis Al-Shura, the Consultative Assembly of Saudi Arabia in Brussels this Monday September 28. The situation in Saudi Arabia and the region as well as the migration crisis centering on Syria and relations between the kingdom and the european Union were discussed.

President Dalia Grybauskaitė attended a United Nations summit where countries adopted the world's sustainable development agenda for 2015-2030 adapted to new challenges. The new program provides for 17 key goals – reduction of poverty and hunger, quality education and health protection, gender equality, sustainable development and consumption, as well as fighting climate change.

After several rounds of trilateral and bilateral negotiations over the last months, at today's meeting chaired by Vice-President for Energy Union Mr Maroš Šefčovič