This factsheet highlights the EU's cooperation with Rwanda, Kenya and Uganda, by giving an overview of each country and their regional context and their achievements in relation to the MDGs. It also gives examples of successful EU projects.

At the EU's General Affairs Council meeting in Brussels on 14 September, the Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Raimundas Karoblis called for a comprehensive approach to migration management.

President Dalia Grybauskaitė met with Georgian Defense Minister Tinatin Khidasheli to discuss regional security issues, bilateral cooperation between Lithuania and Georgia in the field of defense, and progress in the ongoing reforms in Georgia.

The meeting focused on the actions needed to ensure stable gas supplies to Ukraine and via Ukraine to the EU during winter. It was also the occasion to exchange views on matters regarding the EU-Russia energy relations.

On 8 September in New York, the Permanent Mission of Lithuania to the United Nations, in cooperation with the Permanent Mission of Canada to the UN and the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, launched the report of the UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine. The event was attended by representatives from permanent missions, the UN Secretariat and non-governmental organizations.

Loreta Graužinienė, Speaker of the Seimas, welcomed Toyoei Shigeeda, a newly appointed Ambassador of Japan to Lithuania. During the meeting, the Speaker and the Ambassador of Japan discussed bilateral cooperation in the areas of economy, culture and science, and touched upon the relations with Russia. Mrs Graužinienė also expressed her appreciation of the fact that, despite great geographical distance, our countries enjoyed close inter-parliamentary cooperation, as demonstrated by the visit of Masaaki Yamazaki, President of the House of Councillors of Japan, to Lithuania last July, and active engagement of groups for inter-parliamentary relations in both parliaments, and visits of our MPs to Japan.

Continuing his visit to Israel, Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to discuss the bilateral economic relations, the ongoing projects and new prospects of cooperation, particularly focusing on energy.

The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Linas Linkevičius visited Tbilisi on 7 September, where he met with the President of Georgia Giorgi Margvelashvili, the Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili, Vice Prime Minister and the new Foreign Minister Giorgi Kvirikashvili.

At the international conference in Tbilisi on 7 September, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Linas Linkevičius spoke about Europe's current geopolitical situation. He pointed out that Russia aimed to redraw the boundaries of Europe, which was exemplified not only by the occupation of Crimea, but also by the so-called illegal "treaties on alliance and integration", which Russia had signed with the occupied regions of Georgia - Abkhazia and the Tskhinvali region (South Ossetia).

President Dalia Grybauskaitė extended congratulations on behalf of the Lithuanian people and on her own behalf to President Dilma Rousseff of Brazil on Independence Day.