At a meeting with NATO's Deputy Secretary General Alexander Vershbow, Lithuania's Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius called for rapid implementation of the decisions made at the Alliance's Wales summit.
2014 NATO Summit in Wales
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The Embassy of Lithuania in Stockholm - NATO Contact Point Embassy in Sweden - in cooperation with Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) and British Embassy in Stockholm organized the working dinner in order to discuss the implications of 2014 NATO Summit decisions in Cardiff for ...
Lithuania trusts NATO but the country's residents are alarmed by the situation in Ukraine and they need additional guarantees, Lithuania's Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius told CNN.
As Russia's intervention in Ukraine seems to be entering a lower-intensity stage and reports are coming in about ceasefire agreements, both international and Lithuanian media are indulging in discussions on who are the winners and the losers of the conflict.
Addressing the participants of the conference, organised by the Swedish Atlantic Council, the Embassy of Lithuania in Stockholm and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization on 1 October, Lithuanian Ambassador to Sweden Eitvydas Bajarūnas welcomed the decisions adopted in Cardiff and stressed the neces...
On 23-24 September NATO's Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe (DSACEUR) General Adrian Bradshaw paid a visit to the Ministry of National Defence of Lithuania.
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė met with former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in New York. The meeting focused on new challenges to European and global security, further development of transatlantic relations, and bilateral cooperation between Lithuania and the United States of Ameri...
A meeting of chiefs of defense of NATO member-states is starting in Vilnius on Friday to address efforts to step up security in Eastern Europe and the future of the mission in Afghanistan.
As Lithuania's embassy in Sweden is serving as NATO Contact Point Embassy 2013-2014, Ambassador of Lithuania Eitvydas Bajarūnas met with Swedish Naval Officers Club members on 16 September in Stockholm.
"It's a historic moment," was the reaction when Kiev and Brussels ratified the Ukrainian-EU Association Agreement on Tuesday. However, celebration might be somewhat premature, since Moscow, eager to keep Ukraine within its own sphere of influence and away from the EU, has won significant concessions...
Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius met on Tuesday with the appointed NATO Secretary General, Jens Stoltenberg. Linkevičius says he has been reassured the decisions made during the recent NATO summit regarding the strengthening of military capabilities in the Baltic states will ...
Alea iacta est. NATO has agreed on the formation of a special ‘spearhead force’ (officially: Very High Readiness Joint Task Force) that, if necessary, will offer the eastern member states (additional) protection against Russia’s imperialist whims. After twenty years of peace keeping operations and c...
As Russia is engaging in an undeclared war in eastern Ukraine, people in the Baltic states follow developments in Donbass with anxiety, while their leaders work around the clock to ensure that similar scenarios could not be repeated in their backyards. Still, "what would we do if Russia attacked Lit...
How far will the aggressive regime of Vladimir Putin go? I put this question in June to my former colleague who is ambassador of one of the foreign countries. The answer was simple and precise – Putin will go as far as the Western States will allow it.
The abduction of Estonian Security Police (KaPo) officer Eston Kohver last Friday was a message by Russia to the Baltic states and Poland timed to coincide with the NATO Summit, says Mečys Laurinkus, former chief of Lithuania's State Security Department (VSD).
Chief advisor to the president on interior policy Virginija Būdienė says that Lithuania's security increased after the NATO Summit in Wales.
A meeting of chiefs of defence of NATO member-states will take place in Vilnius on 19-21 September, spokesman for Lithuania's defence minister confirmed to BNS.
NATO leaders have a lot to talk about at this year's summit in Wales, expected to be the toughest since the Cold War ended. "Our NATO summit here in Wales will be one of the most important summits in the history of our alliance. A crucial summit at a crucial time," said NATO Secretary General Anders...
NATO decisions, announced on Friday in Wales, are very favourable to Lithuania, says professor Valdas Rakutis of the General Jonas Žemaitis Military Academy.
NATO leaders in Wales have agreed to create a "spearhead" rapid reaction force with several thousand troops ready to deploy at short notice, the BBC reports.
