From 10 to 13 March, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Linas Linkevičius will be paying a working visit to Tokyo and will hold meetings with the Japanese Minister for Foreign Affairs Fumio Kishida, the Chair of the Lithuania-Japan Parliamentary Group for Friendship Hirofumi Nakasone, and other high-ranking officials.

During the high-level meeting at the United Nations Human Rights Council on 4 March, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Linas Linkevičius discussed regional human rights situations, presented Lithuania’s priorities for the UN’s system of human rights protection and iterated Lithuania’s goal of becoming a member of the UN Human Rights Council for the 2022-2024 period.

On 4 March, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania drew up a blacklist of former Ukrainian government officials who will be banned from entering Lithuania and submitted it to the Migration Department.

On 3 March in Brussels, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Linas Linkevičius attended an extraordinary meeting of the EU Foreign Affairs Council on the situation in Ukraine.

On 4 March, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Linas Linkevičius is paying an abbreviated working visit to Geneva, where will take part in high-level debates of the 25th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council, and will hold a meeting with the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay.