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25th Anniversary Celebration of Lithuania’s Diplomatic Relations
On 26 Augustus 1991 the then Minister of Foreign Affairs, Algirdas Saudargas signed a document establishing diplomatic relations between a free Lithuania and Iceland. Soon thereafter, a number of countries followed and on 17 September, the UN General Assembly admitted Lithuania as a member. […]
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Minister of Foreign Affairs’ cautious about German colleague’s bid of arms control
Lithuania’s Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius has given a cautious opinion about the idea proposed by his German counterpart, Frank Walter Steinmeier, to develop new international pacts on arms control in the wake of heightened tensions between NATO and Russia. […]
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German defence minister thanks Lithuania for ‘brilliant’ preparations to host German troops
German Defence Minister Ursula von der Leyen, who is on a visit in Vilnius, has thanked Lithuania for its preparations to host German troops who are to be deployed to the country next year as part of NATO‘s multinational battalion. […]
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Baltic states ‘scared to death’ of Russia and Trump, Biden tells US voters
United States Vice-President Joe Biden says his recent visit to Latvia has given him the impression that the Baltic states are “scared to death” of Russia and fear the possibility of Donald Trump being elected as the next US president. […]
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France taking over NATO air policing mission in Lithuania
The Lithuanian Air Base in Šiauliai, northern Lithuania, is hosting an official NATO air police mission handover ceremony on Wednesday. […]
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Baltic states enjoy attention from NATO allies
Lithuania and the other Baltic states have recently enjoyed increasing support from NATO partners in terms of troop stationing and military equipment. Each country will not only be able to expect increasing numbers of NATO […]
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Lithuania to station NATO battalion in Rukla
The international battalion of NATO Allies should be stationed in Rukla, central Lithuania, next spring, the Ministry of National Defence has said. […]
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Trump ‘doesn’t understand what Article 5 is’ – Biden on defending Baltics
United States Vice-President Joe Biden has said that the Baltic states have no reasons to doubt US commitments to NATO, downplaying the remarks about NATO made by Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump. […]
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Lithuanian president meeting US Vice-President Biden in Riga
Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė is scheduled to meet with United States Vice-President Joe Biden and other Baltic leaders in Latvia on Tuesday, with plans to address US military assistance to the region on mutual grounds, not just in the NATO format. […]
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NATO jets in Lithuania scrambled once last week over Russian warplane
Fighter jets serving in the NATO air policing mission in the Baltic states were scrambled once last week to identify and accompany a Russian warplane flying in international airspace above the Baltic Sea, the Lithuanian Ministry of National Defence. […]
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France and Germany to take over Baltic air-policing mission
French and German aviators will take over the NATO air-policing mission in the Baltic states in September.
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Trump no longer thinks NATO is useless
US presidential candidate Donald Trump has said he would work with NATO allies if he wins the White House, apparently backing down from his earlier suggestions the United States might not meets its obligations to NATO allies. […]
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