On 26 January, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Gabrielius Landsbergis congratulated Antony John Blinken on his new appointment after he was confirmed by the United States Senate as Secretary of State. The Biden administration will start working soon.

On 26 January in Paris, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Gabrielius Landsbergis took part in the first meeting of the Foreign Ministers of the Baltic states and France in the “3 + 1” format. The meeting was held to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the Baltic states and France.

On 26 January, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Gabrielius Landsbergis started his visit to Paris and visited the Shoah Memorial.

On 26 January, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Gabrielius Landsbergis visited NATO headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, where he met with the NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and Sir Stuart Peach, Chairman of the NATO Military Committee.

On 25 January in Brussels, Belgium, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Gabrielius Landsbergis met with the Dutch Minister of Foreign Affairs Stef Blok. The meeting focused on the human rights situation in Russia, Belarus, and China, the Eastern Partnership initiative, and the implementation of the rule of law. The Foreign Ministers welcomed the fact that Lithuania and the Netherlands were very like-minded countries with similar views on many items on the European agenda, and foreign and security policy.

On 25 January, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Gabrielius Landsbergis attended the Foreign Affairs Council meeting. Ministers discussed the EU's response to the detention of Alexei Navalny, the  strategy for sharing COVID-19 vaccines with our eastern partners, transatlantic relations in the light of the inauguration of the new U.S. President, the situation in Venezuela, Hong Kong, and other foreign policy issues.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania strongly condemns the use of brutal force and arrests of peaceful protestors that violate human rights and breach the principle of the rule of law.

On 22 January, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Gabrielius Landsbergis took part in a virtual meeting of the European Union’s foreign ministers with the United States climate envoy John Kerry. The meeting focused on reinventing the EU-U.S. relations on climate after the new U.S. administration announced that the country would re-enter the Paris Agreement on Climate Change.

On 22 January, the Minister of Foreign Affairs Gabrielius of Lithuania Landsbergis attended the United Nations Security Council high-level Arria-formula meeting on Media Freedom in Belarus. Lithuania's Foreign Minister called upon the Belarusian government to respect freedom of expression, and to end the arbitrary detention of journalists and all other media restrictions.

On 21 January, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Gabrielius Landsbergis talked to the EU Ambassadors in Lithuania via virtual discussion and stressed that, in response to global challenges, the EU’s foreign policy needed to be value-based.