On Friday, 20 February, an event to commemorate the Heavenly Hundred Heroes will be held at the Lithuanian Parliament on the initiative of the Ukrainian Embassy in Lithuania.

The High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy/Vice-President of the European Commission, Federica Mogherini, will visit Bosnia and Herzegovina on Monday 23rd February, as the country prepares to take a step forward on its EU integration path.

On February 17th, Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevicius attended a discussion with analysts from Lithuanian banks and shared economic insights.

Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania strongly condemns the killing of Egyptian Copts and extends the deepest sympathy of Lithuanian people to the families of the victims and to all Egyptians.

Despite agreements reached in Minsk, on February 13th afternoon the city of Artemivsk in the Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine was fired by Russian-backed militants. The heating system of Artemivsk is served by the company Artemivsk Energy, part of the Lithuanian holding E Energija.

We, the leaders of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, the United States, the President of the European Council and the President of the European Commission welcome the "Package of Measures for the Implementation of the Minsk Agreements" adopted by their original signatories on 12 th February 2015 in Minsk. Implementation of the "Minsk Package" offers a way forward to a comprehensive, sustainable, and peaceful resolution to the crisis in eastern Ukraine.

The tragedies in Ukraine and the Middle East were among the main subjects debated by MEPs during the February plenary in Strasbourg. Ahead of Thursday's extraordinary European summit, the Parliament also discussed security measures such as the exchange of passenger name records between member states to better track terror suspects. It also asked that the origin or processed meat is clearly indicated to better inform consumers and launched an investigation of tax-related rulings.

After her arrival to Brussels to take part in an informal meeting of the European Council, Lithuania's leader Dalia Grybauskaite says that the latest agreement reached in Minsk on early Thursday is only partial and it is not clear yet if it is going to be implemented.

The torture methods used by the CIA to extract information from detainees have sparked another debate in Parliament in the wake of the US Senate publishing its report on the CIA's detention and interrogation programme. MEPs were asked to vote on two different resolutions on this on 11 February, but only one of them was adopted. We talked to S&D member Birgit Sippel and EPP member Elmar Brok to find out why their political groups had different views on the issue.

EU member states have relaunched peace talks with Russia and Ukraine to prevent the situation in the country from deteriorating any further. On Monday the EP's foreign affairs committee discussed the situation with Alexey Pushkov, the chair of the Duma's international affairs committee. After the meeting, we talked to Othmar Karas, an Austrian member of the EPP group and chair of the EP delegation to the EU-Russia parliamentary cooperation committee, to find out his views.