President Dalia Grybauskaitė met with the Board of the Seimas on Wednesday. The meeting was held prior to the start of the autumn session of the Seimas, which commences on Thursday. The meeting addressed most important tasks in the areas of economy, defence and social security. […]
Lithuania’s Defence Minister Juozas Olekas says that the country is choosing infantry fighting vehicles from more than two options. […]
Lithuania plans to buy Boxer armoured fighting vehicles from Germany, the spokesman for the Lithuanian chief of defence confirmed to BNS on Thursday, adding that the proposal would be submitted to the State Defence Council. […]
Lithuania has not made any decisions about supplying weaponry to Ukraine, says the country’s Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevicius. […]
Artūras Paulauskas, chairman of the Lithuanian Seimas Committee on National Security and Defence, on Thursday proposed discussing the possibility to restore conscription for an indefinite period of time. […]
The headquarters of a new motorized infantry brigade will be situated in the Lithuanian western port of Klaipėda in 2016, Chief of Defence of Lithuania Major General Jonas Vytautas Žukas says. It will be a second brigade in the Lithuanian army. […]
Member of the European Parliament Petras Auštrevičius has raised the idea of including Lithuania’s commitment to spend 2 percent of GDP on defence into the Constitution. […]
Lithuania’s State Defence Council has proposed raising the 2016 defence budget by further 150 million euros. […]
Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė on Monday signed a legal amendment, which reintroduces conscription service in the country. […]
The Seimas of Lithuania on Thursday voted in favour of restoring conscription in the country. The first stage of military draft is scheduled for August-September, National Defence Minister Juozas Olekas said. […]
After the State Defence Council decided that conscription of 19-26-year-olds should be reintroduced for a 5-year period and as the Seimas is preparing to consider the issue, Chief of Defence Major General Jonas Vytautas Žukas says Lithuania has learned five lessons from the conflict in Ukraine. […]
As the Seimas of Lithuania, parliament, is set to discuss the proposed partial restoration of conscription, the country’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė says it’s the only way to strengthen the Lithuanian army in the existing geopolitical situation. […]
Having heard opinions of some MPs regarding the reintroduction of military conscription, Lithuanian Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius says that a discussion at the Seimas on the issue will probably be very lively. […]
The Lithuanian government on Wednesday backed a bill drafted by the Ministry of National Defence on the restoration of conscription. It will now go to parliament for further consideration. […]
The Ministry of National Defence submitted to the Government amendments to the law on the principles of structure of the Armed Forces in 2015. It includes a plan to draft 3,000-3,500 men to compulsory military service. […]
Lithuania’s Parliamentary Speaker Loreta Graužinienė and Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius both say they would not support the idea of making military service mandatory for women as well as men. […]
Lithuania’s Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius said at the end of his US visit that the United States was aware of Lithuania’s security concerns, emphasizing the importance of demonstrating Lithuania’s serious stance on collective defence – possibly in the form of reintroducing conscription. […]
Lithuanian Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius says he does not support the idea include women into compulsory military draft. However, he says that women are always welcome in the armed service as volunteers. […]
The restoration of military conscription has been proposed because it is the only quick way to form army units, says Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė. Besides, she adds, conscripts would cost less than training professionals. […]
The State Defence Council has decided to enhance Lithuania’s defensive capabilities and to temporarily reinstate conscript military service. Speaker of the Seimas Loreta Graužinienė says that parliament will soon start work on the issue. […]
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