The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania strongly condemns Russia’s illegal decision to annex the Ukrainian regions of Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson, and Zaporizhzhia, parts of which are under temporary Russian occupation, announced today, on 30 September 2022 by the President of Russia.

Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Gabrielius Landsbergis spoke on behalf of the Baltic States at the United Nations Security Council meeting on the situation in Ukraine on 22 September 2022 

On 20 September, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Gabrielius Landsbergis attended the Bucharest Nine (B9) meeting of Foreign Ministers on the margins of the United Nations General Assembly in New York, the United States of America.

Today, on 19 September, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Gabrielius Landsbergis met with members of the academic community of Yale University: President Peter Salovey, Professor Timothy Snyder,  and students of political science.

From 19 to 23 September, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Gabrielius Landsbergis is attending the seventy-seventh session of the United Nations General Assembly. During his visit to New York as part of the delegation led by the President of Lithuania Gitanas Nausėda, Landsbergis will attend the general debate under the theme, “A watershed moment: transformative solutions to interlocking challenges”, and other high-level events of the 77th session of the General Assembly.

On 16 September, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Gabrielius Landsbergis met with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland Zbigniew Rau, who is visiting Vilnius, and discussed regional security, support for Ukraine, as well as sanctions against Russia and Belarus.

On 15 September, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Gabrielius Landsbergis visited Riga, Latvia, where he met with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Latvia Edgars Rinkēvičs.

On 15 September, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Gabrielius Landsbergis is visiting Riga, where together with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Latvia Edgars Rinkēvičs, will participate in the 2022 Balts' Award ceremony.

On September 14, Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Gabrielius Landsbergis together with the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Defense of Ireland, Simon Coveney, visited Odesa (Ukraine), where they met with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, Dmytro Kuleba. At the meeting, G. Landsbergis emphasized the necessity to ensure the safety of the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant in order to avoid a nuclear catastrophe in Europe. To achieve this, complete expulsion of the Russian occupation forces, with the help of the international community and coalition of the willing is needed.

On 14 September, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Gabrielius Landsbergis visited Chisinau, Moldova, where he met with the Minister of Foreign Affairs and European Integration of Moldova Nicu Popescu and pledged strong support for Moldova’s sovereignty and territorial integrity. Landsbergis said that Lithuania remained ready to continue its humanitarian support for refugees in Moldova.