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Defence

Canadian fighter jets to take part in Baltic air policing mission

Canadian fighter jets are set to arrive in Lithuania to take part in NATO‘s Baltic air policing mission for the first time. Four F-18 are scheduled to land at the Lithuanian Air Force Air Base in Šiauliai at noon. […]

Šarūnas Birutis
Politics

Lithuanian culture minister: National minority law will depend on coalition line-up

If the task force set up by the prime minister fails to find a compromise on the draft National Minority Law prepared by the Culture Ministry, Lithuanian Culture Minister Šarūnas Birutis says its fate will depend on discussions on the line-up of the ruling coalition and the participation of the Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania (LLRA) party in the bloc. […]

Algirdas Butkevičius
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Lithuanian prime minister: H. Consul’s murder shows Ukraine is at war

The murder of Lithuania’s honorary consul in Luhansk has shown that what is happening in Ukraine is a war and that pro-Russian separatists are not choosing their victims, Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius said on Saturday. […]

Trucks sent from Moscow
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Lithuanian foreign minister in Ukraine: Russian convoy is “a provocation”

The entry of a Russian convoy into the territory of Ukraine is a provocation and a gross violation of international law, Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius said after meeting with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko in Kiev on Friday. […]