Today marks the start of the 44 th assembly session of UNESCO World Heritage Committee.

On 7 July, the annual meeting of the Baltic Cultural Committee was held.

The Minister of Culture Simonas Kairys, the Minister of Foreign Affairs Gabrielius Landbergis and the Vice-Minister of Education, Science and Sport Agnė Kudarauskienė presented Lithuania’s candidacy to the UNESCO Executive Board in 2021–2025 to ambassadors accredited to Lithuania.

The Minister of Culture Simonas Kairys visited Sejny, Wigry and Krasnogruda (Poland) for two days this week.

On 17 June, the European Union programme to mobilise cultural funding, Creative Europe, was officially launched.

The Ministry of Culture together with the Secretariat of the Lithuanian National Commission for UNESCO organised a seminar, World Heritage in Lithuania: Toward Effective Management .

Lithuania is strengthening and intensifying its cooperation with South Korea in the areas of culture and art, education, science, youth exchanges, and sport.

The Ministry of Culture will submit a draft ruling to the government proposing to establish the position of the Cultural Attaché of the Republic of Lithuania in the Embassy of the Republic of Lithuania in Japan.

In response to the incident yesterday, when journalist Raman Pratasevich was arrested after Alexander Lukashenko’s regime took over and forced an airplane to land in Minsk, the Minister of Culture Simonas Kairys is inviting Belarusian journalists accredited in Lithuania to join a meeting.

Starting tomorrow, the Lithuanian pavilion will await visitors at the Venice Biennale of Architecture. This year our country is represented at the event by the artist Julijonas Urbonas, who established a fictional Lithuanian Space Agency and created A Planet of People .

We would like to remind you that, during lockdown, artists and their staff must submit applications to the Ministry of Culture, in accordance with the established procedure, before entering Lithuania from non-European Economic Area countries.

The Swiss Federal Office of Culture has announced the Davos Baukultur Quality System, which was created in cooperation with international partners. This system is one of the steps towards implementation of obligations assumed after signing the declaration on the high-quality Baukultur for Europe during the conference of the European ministers of culture ...