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Viktoras Pranckietis, the speaker of the Lithuanian parliament, will pay an official visit to Israel in mid-October.

Speaker of the Lithuanian Seimas Viktoras Pranckietis doubts that Chinese investment into the Lithuanian port of Klaipėda might affect the country's internal politics. He says he has not seen the alleged report from the State Security Department over threats posed by Chinese investment.

Vytautas Bakas, chairman of the Lithuanian parliament's Committee on National Security and Defense (NSGK), expects the Seimas to hold hearings in the fall on whether the country's key energy projects are in line with its national security interests.

Vytautas Bakas, chairman of the Lithuanian parliament's Committee on National Security and Defense (NSGK), is skeptical about the ruling party leader's proposal to launch another parliamentary investigation into unlawful influence on political processes.

The chairman of the ruling Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union (LVŽS) registered on Thursday a draft Seimas resolution that calls for a new parliamentary investigation into unlawful influence on political processes during the tenure of two previous governments.

Lithuania might need to increase its defense spending by several dozen million euros this year to reach NATO's defense standard of 2 percent GDP, new figures show.

Lithuania's parliamentary Committee on National Security and Defense is in favor of granting the Baltic religious society Romuva state recognition after it was ruled that the society poses no threat to national security.

Lithuania's parliament is on Wednesday scheduled to vote on raising pay for soldiers.

Vytautas Bakas, chairman of the parliament's Committee on National Security and Defense (NSGK), threatened on Friday to leave the ruling Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union's political group in the Seimas if it launches a new parliamentary investigation.

A Vilnius court on Friday prohibited Vytautas Bakas, chairman of the Lithuanian parliament's Committee on National Security and Defense (NSGK), from calling MG Baltic, one of the country's largest business groups, as "an organized criminal group".

The ruling Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union's (LVŽS) political group in the Seimas has decided to initiate a new parliamentary investigation into links between politics and business as a follow-up to a probe conducted the Committee on National Security and Defense (NSGK).

The amendments on the publication of the names of former KGB agents in Lithuania, who have voluntarily admitted their past collaboration, will be corrected, Lithuanian Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis says following criticism by the State Security Department.

The Seimas of Lithuania on Tuesday approved the conclusions of the parliamentary Committee on National Security and Defense's probe into unlawful influence on political processes, in which Russia's Rosatom and Lithuania's MG Baltic business groups were named as threats.

The leader of the ruling Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union (LVŽS) expects the Seimas to set up a new parliamentary commission to continue the Committee on National Security and Defense's (NSGK) investigation into interest groups' influence on political processes.

Interest groups' interference in Lithuania's political process was systematic and went on for years, which cannot be tolerated, the chairman of the parliament's Committee on National Security and Defense (NSGK) said on Tuesday.

Vytautas Bakas, chairman of the Lithuanian parliament's Committee on National Security and Defense (NSGK), will on Tuesday present the findings of a parliamentary investigation into business and interest groups' influence on political processes and decision-makers to the full Seimas.