German Chancellor Angela Merkel has stated on several occasions that stationing permanent NATO forces in Eastern Europe would be in breach of the 1997 NATO-Russia agreement. However, legal expert Erika Leonaitė, a lecturer at the International Relations and Political Science Institute of Vilnius University, says the reality is more complicated than that. […]
About 150 signatories from Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia have asked US President Barack Obama to ensure permanent presence of Allies in the territory of the Baltic states. […]
In an interview with LRT radio the President Dalia Grybauskaitė says that the meeting of the presidents of the three Baltic States with the President of the United States of America (USA) Barack Obama means that the region has very strong support and its concerns are taken seriously. According to her, the NATO summit, which will take place in Wales right after this meeting, is vital in the current geopolitical situation. […]
Lithuanian Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius held a meeting of ministers on Friday to address possible challenges for national security arising from the Russian invasion of Ukraine. […]
Belarus will host the latest round of talks between Ukraine and Russia in Minsk on 1 August as Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko continues to push his country as a mediator in the crisis. Lukashenko’s motivation is not altruistic, however, as Belarus is not immune to the competition between Russia and the West over the strategic borderland countries of the former Soviet periphery. […]
A security crisis in the Baltic states is the biggest threat to NATO, therefore, the Alliance must boost its presence in the region to avoid it and deter Russia, British analyst Edward Lucas warned in a speech to the US Senate’s Foreign Relations Committee. […]
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