On Thursday, 88 MPs unanimously backed the agreement regulating the legal status of German military forces, civil servants and their families in Lithuania as well as accessibility of healthcare, transport and children’s education services.
The intergovernmental agreement lays out the order of arrival of German troops in Lithuania, as well as their departure, the ways they will be able to access Lithuanian military infrastructure objects, and other practical considerations. It allows for establishing military shops and mess-halls, post services, radio station, driving schools and military medical facilities for the German Allies.
National Defence Minister Laurynas Kasčiūnas and German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius signed the agreement in August this year.
Germany’s Bundestag is expected to ratify the cooperation agreement next year, Pistorius said last week when he was visiting Vilnius.