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Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda says he is "sad" to see the United Kingdom leaving the European Union, but hopes to maintain close ties with the country.

Lithuania's outgoing Police Commissioner General Linas Pernavas plans to leave for London to work as the country's special police attaché to the United Kingdom after his term of office ends later this month.

As part of preparations for cooperation with Britain after its departure from the EU, the Lithuanian government decided on Wednesday to set up the post of police attaché to the United Kingdom.

Lithuania's richest man Nerijus Numavičius, who has lived in London since June 2015, will declare his 2016 income and pay taxes for the year solely in the United Kingdom.

Lithuania's leaders on Tuesday condemned a suspected terror attack at a pop concert in the English city of Manchester that killed at least 22 people.

It would make no sense for emigrants in the United Kingdom to give up their Lithuanian passports and become British citizens, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė says as Brexit talks are about to start.

Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius says that Lithuania is not glad that the United Kingdom has started the process of exiting the European Union, but it hopes that the two countries will maintain close ties after Brexit.

Lithuania's Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius has said that the United Kingdom should not start its relations from zero after leaving the European Union (EU), suggesting to "preserve that has been created."

Lithuania's President Dalia Grybauskaitė said at a meeting with the European Union's (EU) Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier that Lithuania's position was to prevent discrimination of EU citizens, including Lithuanians, during the United Kingdom's exit from the organization.

Lithuania will not abandon its citizens living in the United Kingdom in the Brexit negotiations, President Dalia Grybauskaitė said at a meeting with Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May in Brussels on Thursday.

A group of eight accomplices who used to take Lithuanian citizens to the United Kingdom to later pocket their social benefits in the country have been charged with human trafficking, a Šiauliai court said on Monday.

Europe needs unity more than ever before, as it is challenged by crisis of identity and confidence, Lithuania's President Dalia Grybauskaitė said after meeting in Berlin with Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel and four other leaders in the run-up to European Union (EU) summit.

Lithuanians living in the United Kingdom say they are in shock after the majority of Britons voted in favour of leaving the European Union, said Dalia Asanaviciute, head of the country's Lithuanian community.