At the 45th session of the UNESCO World Heritage Committee meeting in Riyadh (Kingdom of Saudi Arabia), it was decided to inscribe Kaunas modernist architecture on the World Heritage List, after endorsement by the States Parties seated on the World Heritage Committee and taking into consideration the recommendations of experts.

On Sunday (9 July), Minister of Culture Simonas Kairys attended the 150-year-old Latvian Song and Dance Festival in Riga, where he also met with the ministers of culture of Latvia, Estonia, Poland and Ukraine.

Minister of Culture Simonas Kairys met with His Excellency Konstanty Radziwiłł, who in April began to serve as the Ambassador of the Republic of Poland in Lithuania.

Minister of Culture Simonas Kairys met today with His Excellency OZAKI Tetsu, Ambassador of Japan in Lithuania. The meeting focused on Sugihara House, the museum located in Kaunas.

Vice-Minister of Culture Vygintas Gasparavičius, together with representatives of the Lithuanian film industry, participated in the North American Lithuanian Business (NALB) Forum in Chicago, meeting with representatives of American film and television studios.

Working with raw materials to transform them into valuable products, designer Agnė Kučerenkaitė has twice won funding from the WORTH  Partnership Project, propagating the ideas of the New European Bauhaus.

Yesterday (6 June) 11 cultural attachés residing abroad met at the Ministry of Culture.

A bilateral meeting of the expert group on preservation of the cultural heritage of Lithuania and Poland was held in Kraków, discussing cooperation in the areas of protection of cultural heritage of significance to both countries, preservation of historical memory, and museums, libraries, and archives.

At the UNESCO headquarters in Paris, Lithuania was elected to the Subsidiary Committee of the Meeting of States Parties to the 1970 Convention on the Means of Prohibiting and Preventing the Illicit Import, Export and Transfer of Ownership of Cultural Property.

Minister of Culture Simonas Kairys participated in the opening of an exhibition at the National Museum in Kraków on the evening of 23 May, Vilnius-Wilno-Vilne 1918–1948. Vienas miestas – daug istorijų (Vilnius-Wilno-Vilne 1918–1948. One city ...

Minister of Culture Simonas Kairys participated in a meeting of the EU Council of Ministers of Culture in Brussels on 16 May, discussing the European Media Freedom Act and approving conclusions on protection of at-risk and displaced artists.

At a meeting of the Baltic Cultural Committee held in Tallinn, the joint initiatives of Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia in the area of culture were discussed, along with issues concerning assistance to the Ukrainian cultural sector.