On 9 December in Brussels, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Linas Linkevičius attended the Foreign Affairs Council, which focused on human rights issues and the EU-Africa relationship.

On 5 December, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Linas Linkevičius met with Georgia’s Minister of Foreign Affairs David Zalkaliani and the Minister of Foreign Affairs of North Macedonia Nikola Dimitrov, and discussed the recent escalation of the situation along the occupation line of South Ossetia.

On 5 December at the OSCE Ministerial Council in Bratislava, Slovakia, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Linas Linkevičius highlighted that Russia’s continued aggression against Ukraine and other neighboring countries remained a major security challenge within the OSCE region.

This statement is delivered on behalf of Bulgaria, Canada, Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Poland, Romania, Sweden, Ukraine, the United Kingdom and the United States of America.

On 2 December, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Linas Linkevičius met with the delegation led by the State Secretary of the Slovak Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs František Ružička. The meeting discussed the Slovak Chairmanship of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) and preparations for the OSCE Ministerial Council on 5 and 6 December in Bratislava.

On 29 November, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Linas Linkevičius expressed his condolences to a close friend of Lithuania, Chairman of Japan-Lithuania Friendship Diet Members' League Hirofumi Nakasone on the passing of his father, former Prime Minister of Japan Yasuhiro Nakasone. In these moments of loss, the Foreign Minister wished the family and relatives the strength to bear the great pain.

On 29 November in Rīga, Latvia, at a joint meeting of the Baltic Assembly and the Baltic Foreign Ministers’, the Minister L. Linkevičius emphasized the need for Baltic solidarity in relation to unsafe Belarusian nuclear energy.

At their meeting in Tallinn (Estonia) on 26 November, the Foreign Ministers of Lithuania, Estonia, Sweden, and Ukraine released a joint statement on Ukraine.

On 21 November, the career diplomat Dalius Čekuolis took office as the new Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania. D. Čekuolis replaced the former Foreign Vice-Minister Darius Skusevičius, who has been appointed as the Ambassador of Lithuania to Canada.

On 20 November, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Linas Linkevičius participated in the meeting of NATO Foreign Ministers in Brussels, which finalized preparations for the meeting of NATO leaders on 3 and 4 December in London, the United Kingdom. NATO Foreign Ministers discussed progress in strengthening NATO deterrence and defense posture, and ensuring a high level of readiness of our forces in order to better respond to cyber-attacks and hybrid threats. Foreign Ministers also discussed relations with Russia, China, the future of arms control and sharing the burden of defense expenditure.