Visits

President of the Republic of Lithuania Dalia Grybauskaitė left for a working visit to Finland and Estonia. In Helsinki, President Grybauskaitė met with Finland's President Tarja Halonen, Speaker of Parliament Sauli Niinistö, and Prime Minister Matti Vanhanen. "Finland is a very important partner of Lithuania in strengthening cooperation with Nordic countries and Finnish experience in the field of energy and innovation is also very useful to Lithuania," the President of Lithuania said.

President of the Republic of Lithuania Dalia Grybauskaitė attended the 64th Session of the United Nations General Assembly and made a speech at the general debates on the topic "Effective Responses to Global Crises: Strengthening Multilateralism and Dialogue among Civilisations for International Peace, Security and Development".The President underlined that although the international community was facing new challenges, the founding principles of the United Nations remained the same as six decades ago: joint security, prosperity, protection of human rights.

During her working visit to France, President of the Republic of Lithuania Dalia Grybauskaitė and President of the Republic of France Nicolas Sarkozy signed a strategic partnership agreement which is the first document of this kind in the history of the two countries.

While on a working visit to Poland, President of the Republic of Lithuania Dalia Grybauskaitė met with Poland's President Lech Kaczyński in Warsaw to discuss opportunities for strategic cooperation between Lithuania and Poland.

While on a two-day working visit to Brussels, President of the Republic of Lithuania Dalia Grybauskaitė met with President of the European Commission Jose Manuel Barroso to discuss issues of importance for Lithuania and the upcoming meetings of the Council of the European Union on economic issues and climate change scheduled this coming autumn.

On her first working visit to the Kingdom of Sweden, President of the Republic of Lithuania Dalia Grybauskaitė met with Sweden's Speaker of Parliament Per Westerberg and later with Sweden's Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt.