On 16 October 2013, in New York, H. E. Mr. Linas Linkevičius, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Lithuania, and H. E. Mr. Tommo Monthe, Permanent Representative of the Republic of Cameroon to the United Nations, signed the Joint Communiqué on the establishment of the diplomatic relations between the Republic of Lithuania and the Republic of Cameroon.

The Republic of Cameroon is the 173rd state with which Lithuania has established the diplomatic relations.