Activities

The remit of the Committee on Foreign Affairs shall be:

1) to prepare conclusions concerning the ratification and denouncement of international treaties of the Republic of Lithuania and other issues of foreign policy which are considered by the Seimas;

2) to prepare and consider drafts of laws and other legal acts related to foreign affairs and to submit conclusions thereon;

3) to exercise parliamentary scrutiny of the ministries and other government agencies which carry out foreign policy, submit proposals and recommendations regarding the improvement of their activities; to consider and submit proposals concerning for developing and implementing State foreign policy;

4) taking into account the foreign policy priorities, to coordinate issues of international cooperation of the Seimas, to discuss the representation of the Seimas in international parliamentary organisations and assemblies, to submit recommendations concerning activities of Seimas delegations to international parliamentary organisations and assemblies, to coordinate the setting-up and activities of Seimas groups for inter-parliamentary relations, to submit recommendations and proposals to them, to hear and evaluate activity reports of the Seimas delegations to international parliamentary organisations and assemblies and the Seimas groups for inter-paliamentary relations at least once a year starting from the date of their setting-up;

5) to exercise control of state institutions which present information about Lithuania meant for foreign countries, prepare conclusions and proposals relative thereto;

6) to maintain and develop, in conjunction with State and public organisations, the relations with Lithuanian emigrants and their organisations and with the Lithuanians autochthons residing outside the Republic of Lithuania;

7) to consider, in conjunction with other committees, the problems related to the regulation of migration and submit proposals and conclusions thereon;

8) to consider and submit recommendations and proposals to the Government concerning the establishment of diplomatic relations of the Republic of Lithuania and the opening of Lithuanian missions abroad;

9) to consider in advance proposals of the Minister of Foreign Affairs, submit conclusions and recommendations related to the appointment of diplomatic representatives of the Republic of Lithuania in foreign states and international organisations and the recalling of the said representatives;

10) to participate, within its remit, in the process of the preparation and evaluation of a position of the Republic of Lithuania concerning proposals to adopt legal acts of the European Union (within the meaning of Article 180¹(4)), to present, where necessary, an opinion of the Seimas regarding the position of the Republic of Lithuania to the Government and to evaluate the presentation of this position in the institutions of the European Union;

11) to consider, within its remit, other documents of the European Union (as they are defined in Article 180¹(5)),where necessary, to present conclusions and proposals regarding these documents;

12) to submit, within its remit and where necessary, conclusions to the Seimas regarding potential non-compliance of draft legislative acts (within the meaning of Article 180¹(3)) with the principle of subsidiarity.

Article 68 of the Statue of the Seimas