On January 30-31 Minister of National Defence Arvydas Anušauskas attended the informal EU Defence Ministers’ meeting in Brussels. At the meeting, the necessity to speed up ammunition supply to Ukraine was underscored, short-term and long-term EU military aid, strengthening of the European defence industry, and EU military missions and operations were discussed.

On 23 January, the Ambassador of Lithuania Eduardas Borisovas, who resides in Zagreb, presented his letters of credence to the President of North Macedonia Stevo Pendarovski.

On Friday, President Gitanas Nausėda received letters of credence from Italian Ambassador Emanuele de Maigret and US Ambassador Kara McDonald.

Ministers are holding a series of meetings in parliamentary committees to present the priorities of the Belgian Presidency of the Council.

January 23, a distance meeting of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group addressed situation of the battlefield, Ukraine’s most urgent needs and defence industry capacity.

On 23 January, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania summoned Belarusia's chargé d’affaires ad interim and handed over a diplomatic note expressing a solid protest against repeated violations of the state border of Lithuania.

MEPs demand that all hostages are immediately and unconditionally released and the terrorist organisation Hamas is dismantled.

President Gitanas Nausėda, who is attending the World Economic Forum in Davos, met with Moldovan Prime Minister Dorin Recean to discuss the prospects of Moldova’s EU accession negotiations.

On Thursday, the European Parliament adopted three resolutions on human rights issues in China, Sudan and Tajikistan.

At the World Economic Forum in Davos, President Gitanas Nausėda underlined that helping Ukraine to defend its right to exist is the duty of the free world, which the Western countries must fulfil. The President stressed that security guarantees from the world’s major powers, continued military assistance, cooperation with NATO and negotiations on membership in the European Union are the most important steps Western countries need to take this year.