Foreign Ministry

Lithuania has allocated 100,000 euros in humanitarian aid to Ukraine.

The procedure for appointing outgoing Energy Minister Zygimantas Vaiciunas as Lithuania's consul general in Los Angeles is stalling at the Foreign Ministry, well-informed sources have confirmed to BNS.

Lithuania's outgoing Energy Minister Zygimantas Vaiciunas is seeking to become the country's consul general in Los Angeles, well-informed sources told BNS on Friday.

Career diplomat Diana Mickeviciene is being proposed for Lithuania's ambassador to China.

A total of 507 Belarusian citizens have been allowed to come to Lithuania on humanitarian, the Interior Ministry said on Wednesday.

Lithuania’s Foreign Ministry has decided to recall some of its diplomats from Minsk, although not as many as demanded by Belarus’ authorities.

Lithuania is recalling its ambassador to Minsk, Andrius Pulokas, for consultations, the Foreign Ministry said late on Monday.

The Belarusian Foreign Ministry said on Friday it is recalling the country's ambassadors to Lithuania and Poland for consultations.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs informs that it has not issued a press release claiming that the Foreign Minister of Lithuania Linas Linkevičius called on the EU to create European peacekeeping forces and deploy them to Belarus.

Lithuania's Foreign Ministry plans to facilitate visa issuance for Belarusian citizens.

Lithuania has to date granted entry to 205 Belarusian nationals for special humanitarian reasons, including 54 who are already in the country, the Interior Ministry said on Monday.

The Lithuanian government on Wednesday formally approved a plan to support victims of repression by the Minsk regime and other Belarusian people, with its details yet to be finalized.

Lithuania has prepared a list of national sanctions against the Belarussian regime, Foreign Minister Linas Linkevicius said on Wednesday evening.

Lithuania is calling on Russia to accept responsibility for the downing of Malaysia Airlines' flight MH17 over eastern Ukraine in 2014, the Foreign Ministry said on Friday, the sixth-anniversary of the disaster that claimed 298 lives.

As the Baltic states have lifted the restrictions for their citizens to travel to other Baltic states, there are no queues on the Lithuanian-Latvian border yet, but they are likely to form over the upcoming weekend, Rustamas Liubajevas, chief of Lithuania's State Border Guard Service, warns.

The Turkish government is set to decide on Monday whether to allow a shipment of lung ventilators, worth 350,000 euro, to be delivered to Lithuania, the lrytas.lt news website reports.

The Lithuanian government on Wednesday imposed a ban, effective from Saturday, on all passenger air and ferry travel, except for the ferry route between the German port of Kiel and Klaipeda.

The Lithuanian Foreign Ministry launched on Friday the registration of citizens who are unable to return from countries hardest hit by the coronavirus on their own.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania does not recognize the holding of the illegal "regional and local elections" in the annexed Autonomous Republic of Crimea and Sevastopol on 8 September or the results.

The Chinese Embassy in Lithuania said on Monday it disagreed with the Lithuanian government's accusations over the incident last month when a group of supporters of the Chinese government were involved in a conflict with Lithuanian activists who were voicing support to Hong Kong.