On 24 June, the Ambassador of Lithuania to Japan Aurelijus Zykas presented his letters of credence to Japan's Emperor Naruhito.

Conflict-related sexual violence is a deplorable and devastating practice which persists around the world. In some cases it is used as an appalling method of warfare. The widespread use of rape and other forms of sexual violence in armed conflicts demands accelerated action. It inflicts unimaginable suffering and harms individuals, families and communities. But it is not an inevitable consequence of war.

On 14 June, the Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Mantas Adomėnas conferred the award of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs – Lithuania’s Diplomacy Star – on the outgoing Special Envoy for Belarus of the United States in Lithuania Julie Fisher.

The Honorary Consul of Lithuania in South Africa Ivor Geoffrey Feinberg passed away on 4 June 2022, in Johannesburg. He has served as the Honorary Consul of Lithuania since 22 July 2005, for nearly seventeen years.

On 1 June in Tbilisi, Georgia, the Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Mantas Adomėnas met with the Chair of the EU Integration Committee, Head of the Georgia-Lithuania Friendship Group Maka Botchorishvili, and discussed Georgia’s integration into the European Union.

On 31 May in Reykjavik, the Ambassador of Lithuania to Iceland Asta Radikaitė presented her letters of credence to the President of Iceland Guðni Thorlacius Jóhannesson.

By Gabrielius Landsbergis, Minister of Foreign Affairs

Just some days ago, I returned from my second trip to Ukraine since the beginning of the war. Many of the long hours of the train trip to Kyiv and back to Lithuania are inevitably spent looking out the window at the seemingly endless fields of tilled black earth that — despite the war — are beginning to show the new cultured green of spring crops. 

On 17 May, the Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Raimundas Karoblis met with the Flemish Minister-President Jan Jambon, who is paying a working visit to Lithuania. During the meeting, the interlocutors discussed the implementation of the cooperation programme for 2019-2023 under the Cooperation Agreement between the Government of Lithuania and the Government of Flanders, the geopolitical situation in the region, support for Ukraine, the situation in Belarus and support for Belarusian civil society.

On 12 May, the Human Rights Council convened a special session on the deteriorating human rights situation in Ukraine stemming from the Russian aggression.