🇬🇪#Georgia foreign agents legislation raises concerns over negative impact on civil society. See ODIHR’s full statement here: buff.ly/PaujVUU #HumanRights #CivilSociety

Today, at the #OSCE, Ambassador Vaidotas Verba delivered a joint Nordic-Baltic statement, expressing support for Ukraine as Russia's killing and destruction continue and reiterating the need to hold Russia accountable for its crimes. 🇩🇰 🇪🇪 🇫🇮 🇮🇸 🇱🇻 🇱🇹🇳🇴🇸🇪 #StandWithUkraine🇺🇦

Lithuania, alongside Ukraine and Slovenia, has been elected to the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs (#CND) for the 2026-2029 term! 🇱🇹 A big thanks to the ECOSOC members for their support of Lithuania's candidature.

Russian terror against #Ukraine continues in full force. Last night alone Russia launched 17 cruise& 6 ballistic missiles, 109 drones against various regions of Ukraine. Dead children, destroyed playgrounds and flattened residential buildings - Putin's so-called "readiness for

At the #OSCE special Permanent Council, Lithuania strongly condemned Russia's brutal missile attack on Kryvyi Rih, killing 20 people, including 9 children. Russia's ongoing atrocities in Ukraine show that its goal remains war, not peace. 🇱🇹#StandWithUkraine🇺🇦against🇷🇺aggression

On Georgia's Day of National Unity, together with the 🇬🇪 people, we remember the tragic events of the Soviet military crackdown of 9 April 1989 and the restoration of Independence on 9 April 1991. 🇱🇹 stands with 🇬🇪 people as they continue the struggle for a European future!

Instead of Easter truce, a horrific Palm Sunday for the people of Sumy. Another war crime by Putin as his killers targets civilian infrastructure of Ukraine. Russia acts like terrorist even discussing ceasefire. #Lithuania stands with #Ukraine& will continue to do so. I

The forced deportation of thousands of #Ukrainian children to Russia and Belarus—and their indoctrination—are war crimes that once again reveal the sheer cruelty of the aggressor. There can be no just and lasting peace without the unconditional return of every child to their

Ukraine has committed to peace. Russia answers with bombs. While #Ukraine unconditionally agrees to a ceasefire& works relentlessly toward lasting peace, Russia unleashes another wave of brutal attacks on 🇺🇦. Last night, missiles rained down on Kyiv and other cities - killing

May 1945 did not mean the end of the war for Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia. The USSR occupied us, used armed force to crush the efforts to restore the statehood, and attempted to distort history, hiding crimes. Such "liberators" are called occupiers. #WordsMatter #HistoryMatters

The WWII was a result of USSR and Nazis cooperation. Until then, the two countries continued their political, military & economic cooperation. russia omits it, trying to own the victory against fascism. But the victims of totalitarianism remember the full story & sacrifices made.

The USSR, despite the crimes, emerged from the war more powerful than ever. Occupied countries had to bear the brutal mechanisms of Stalinist regime: terror, political repression, economic collapse, and ideological indoctrination. That's part of the victory russia gloats about.

A must-read: 'Putin fantasizes about another Yalta, where he can draw borders on Europe’s map, once again undermining international law and the right of nations in Russia’s neighbourhood to make their own choices and decisions. We must never allow this.' nytimes.com/2025/05/08/opi…

Lithuania 🇱🇹, back in the European family after difficult trials, freedom struggles and a singing revolution, celebrates Europe Day on 9 May.

🇱🇹 Deputy FM Gabija Grigaite - Daugirde welcomed the historic decision by Council of Europe CM to establish a Special Tribunal for the crime of aggression against Ukraine: "This will be the first tribunal since Nuremberg to address the crime of aggression – the source of all other international crimes."

Congratulations to Estonia 🇪🇪 on assuming the Chair of the OSCE Forum for Security Cooperation. Lithuania 🇱🇹 fully supports Estonia's priorities, including its focus on Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine 🇺🇦.

Happy #VyshyvankaDay! 🇺🇦 In every stitch of Ukrainian #Vyshyvanka lies nation's identity and pride that cannot be erased. By wearing it today we stand for #Ukraine, its freedom, its people and their peaceful future within both the EU and NATO. #StandWithUkraine #SlavaUkraini

On 18 May, we remember the Crimean Tatar victims of the 1944 Soviet genocide. Today, history echoes painfully as Russia continues its repressions in occupied Crimea. 🇱🇹 stands with the Crimean Tatar people - in remembrance, solidarity, in the fight for freedom. Crimea is Ukraine!

Since 2021, Belarus has weaponized migration against Lithuania and the EU. Today, Lithuania filed a case against Belarus at the International Court of Justice over the migrant crisis orchestrated by the Lukashenko regime in violation of international law.

On this Day of Solidarity with Political Prisoners in #Belarus, at the OSCE we continue to condemn their arbitrary detention. Alongside Viasna, who documents these injustices, we help make their stories visible. Their faces, their fights ➡️prisoners.spring96.org/en #FreeBelarus