Lithuania has written to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development asking to become the 31st member of its Development Assistance Committee.
It would be the first new member of the Paris-based committee since Hungary joined in 2016.
As well as peer-reviewing each other’s aid spending, DAC members set the rules on what the group of mostly western donors can count as official development assistance. Thirty of the OECD’s 38 members are DAC members, including the likes of Australia, France, Germany, Slovenia, South Korea, the United States, and the European Union — the only nonstate member.