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NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg says a fake letter sent out in his name to announce alleged withdrawal of allied troops from Lithuania was aimed at sowing confusion and undermining the unity of NATO allies by capitalizing on the COVID-19 crisis.

Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda appointed Deputy Government Chancellor Deividas Matulionis as Lithuania's permanent representative to NATO.

Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda says the Baltic countries and Poland have received Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's political approval in principle for their updated defense plan, but admits that hurdles may still arise at NATO's technical level.

Turkey's decision to block the updated defense plans for the Baltic states and Poland might make military planning more difficult but it's not a catastrophe as other planning instruments remain, retired US General Ben Hodges says.

President Gitanas Nauseda recalled on Wednesday Lithuania's ambassadors to Russia, NATO and UNESCO as their terms of office are set to expire.

President Gitanas Nauseda says the deployment of US troops to Lithuania is aimed at protecting people living in the country, not at intimidating Belarus.

The deployment of a US battalion to Lithuania sends the message that Lithuanians can rely on Americans to meet their commitments to NATO despite Washington's controversial decision to withdraw from Syria, Ben Hodges, the former US Army commander in Europe, has said.

The heavy equipment of the US battalion to be stationed in Lithuania for six months has arrived in the country on Monday.

Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda, currently in Brussels, says the existing NATO measures to defend the Baltic states from Russia are insufficient.

Chancellor Angela Merkel says Germany will continue to lead NATO's multinational battalion in Lithuania and to perform the Baltic air policing mission.

Lieutenant Colonel Rouven Habel of Germany is taking over as commander of NATO's multinational battlegroup in Lithuania in a ceremony on Thursday, the Defense Ministry said.

The United States' most-advanced fighter jets F-35 landed in Lithuania on Thursday.

Over the past year, Lithuania has marked historic anniversaries that have brought into focus both how much Lithuania has overcome in the past decades and how much this nation has accomplished. Today I join all Lithuanians in celebrating one such accomplishment. On this date 15 years ago, Lithuania j...

The key task of the Lithuanian president is to deal with the main foreign policy questions and together with the cabinet enact foreign policy.

Lithuania, as if a hopeless romantic and naïve person constantly lives in cycles of constant waiting, disappointment and new hope. We are now at the starting phase of a new cycle – the presidential elections.

Some Signatories to the Act of Independence were struck by the wind from the East several decades ago. Unfortunately, the damage is irreversible. Some of them wanted to wait a moment for something and refrain from ‘irritating’ the greater power on that fatal day of 11 March 1990. Witnesses say that ...

Dalia Grybauskaitė‘s presidency is coming to an end. Evaluations of her tenure are beginning. She has no lack of fans and her high ratings show that she has the support of most citizens. A movie is being made about her, a book is being written and they will likely have a notable hagiographic tint. I...

While the Lithuanian Penal Code (BK) prohibits the dissemination and fostering of hatred, it either acts selectively or is based on a false premise and thus encourages witch hunts instead of helping implement real justice.

Participating in an Eastern Europe Studies Centre (RESC) discussion, Gitanas Nausėda once more stated his programme guidelines and stressed that we must not only feel like NATO members, but must also strengthen our position of membership, also adding that while the European Union is crucial, we shou...

The Lithuanian parliament (Seimas) unanimously ratified on Thursday North Macedonia's NATO accession protocol. All 92 MPs attending the session voted in favor.