Human Rights subcommittee MEPs debated today the human rights situation in Venezuela with representatives of the political opposition, human rights activists and spokespersons of victims groups.

Vladimir Putin's press secretary, Dmitri Peskov, said today that Moscow is ready for talks with the Baltic States.

President Dalia Grybauskaitė extended condolences to President Giorgi Margvelashvili of Georgia over the flood in Tbilisi.

Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Rolandas Kriščiūnas paid a working visit to Japan On 8-10 June.

President Dalia Grybauskaitė extended congratulations to Queen Elizabeth II on Her Majesty's Official Birthday.

Russia's illegal annexation of Crimea has also raised questions about the strategic military situation in the Black Sea Basin. As MEPs prepare to vote on a resolution on this on Thursday 11 June, we spoke to report author and EP Vice-President Ioan Mircea Paşcu about the situation. The Romanian S&D member told us: "The deployment and the aggressive modernisation of the fleet put forward by Russia is a security challenge, which cannot be ignored or left entirely to Nato."

MEPs state their concern at the high number of child pregnancies in Paraguay, calling for "access to safe and legal abortion" when the health and life of women or girls are in danger, "where there is severe foetal impairment and in cases of rape and incest". In separate resolutions they also call for the protection of the Palmyra site and draw attention to the situation of children in Nepal.

"Mongolia will be a strategic anchor for the EU in the east," Mongolian President Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj said, addressing MEP's during the plenary session in Strasbourg on Tuesday 9 June. It is Elbegdorj's first visit to the Parliament since being elected in May 2009. During his speech he talked about his country´s transition to democracy and the European Union's support and cooperation during this time.

December's climate change conference in Paris aims to come up with an international agreement to help limit global warming after 2020, but it is far from the first one. MEPs are this week voting on a recommendation to ensure that the Doha climate agreement, setting targets for emissions reductions up to 2020, is still ratified by the end of the year. Read on to find out more about the first climate change agreements and the efforts to come up with a new global deal to help fight global warming.

On June 5 at an extraordinary United Nations Security Council meeting on Ukraine Lithuanian Permanent Representative to the UN Ambassador Raimonda Murmokaitė noted that bloody offensive against Marinka village near Donetsk by Russian-backed separatists poses a serious threat to Minsk Agreements. During the attacks against settlements in Marinka and other places, heavy weaponry have been used, which had to be withdrawn by Russia-backed groups, according to the package of measures for implementation of the Minsk Agreements, agreed on February 12, 2015.