On 16 October, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Linas Linkevičius met with the Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs François-Philippe Champagne in Vilnius. The Foreign Ministers discussed bilateral cooperation in the fields of politics, economy, and security policy, the state of play in transatlantic relations, as well as the situation in Belarus and Ukraine.

October 16, 2020 - Vilnius, Lithuania

Foreign ministers Linas Linkevičius of Lithuania, Edgars  Rinkēvičs of Latvia, Urmas Reinsalu of Estonia and François-Philippe Champagne of Canada met jointly today in Vilnius for the first time.

On 16 October, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Linas Linkevičius will meet with his Canadian counterpart François-Philippe Champagne in Vilnius. The Foreign Ministers will discuss bilateral relations, the situation in Belarus and Ukraine, the relationship with Russia, and the current security environment in the region.

On 13 October, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Linas Linkevičius met with the new Ambassador Designate of Sweden Inger Buxton, who presented her letters of credence to the President Gitanas Nausėda yesterday.

On 12 October, the Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Albinas Zananavičius attended the Foreign Affairs Council in Luxembourg, which focused on the situation in Russia and Belarus, issues related to Latin America and the Caribbean, Nagorno-Karabakh, and the Kyrgyz Republic. Ministers also discussed the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue and the EU Action Plan on Human Rights and Democracy 2020-2024.

On 6 October, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Linas Linkevičius presented Lithuania’s position towards Belarus to the Greens Parliamentary Group in the German Bundestag  and answered their questions.

On 5 October, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania held intensive consultations with other Foreign Ministries of the European Union on the demand by the Minsk regime that Lithuania and Poland reduce their diplomatic staff in Belarus.

On 5 October, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania announced a Call to submit applications for the implementation of development cooperation projects under the Development Cooperation and Democracy Promotion Programme in 2021.

On 2 October, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Linas Linkevičius and representatives from American Jewish Organisations discussed guidelines for cooperation between the U.S. and Lithuania, the perpetuation of historical memory, the fight against manifestations of anti-Semitism in the world and in Lithuania, the situation in Belarus, as well as issues related to international security and policy.

On 2 October, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Linas Linkevičius had a telephone conversation with the German Federal Foreign Minister Heiko Maas to discuss the situation in Belarus and the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh.