The Seimas Committee on National Security and Defence on Monday elected MP Arvydas Pocius as its new chair. Parliament is yet to approve the appointment.
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Lithuanian politicians say there's no reason to worry after the Estonian prime minister said NATO's defense plans include the possibility of allowing the occupation of the Baltic states and their subsequent liberation, and describe it as a means of political pressure ahead of the upcoming NATO summi...
As Latvia last week banned Russian and Belarusian legal or natural persons from holding stakes in or participating in the management of companies key for the country's national security, Laurynas Kasciunas, chairman of the Lithuanian parliamentary Committee on National Security and Defense, says Lit...
COVID-19 vaccines could be delivered to Lithuania a bit sooner but it would be a small number of dozes, Audrius Sceponavicius, the director of the Public Health Department at the Ministry of Health, says.
A governmental commission that vets strategic deals has launched a review of Nuctech, a Chinese company bidding for an aviation security equipment contract from the operator of Lithuania's three international airports.
Belarus may officially open its Astravyets nuclear power plant (NPP) on Friday in a symbolic move ahead of this weekend's presidential election, but the facility is unlikely to start actual operations until late this year or early next year, the Lithuanian president's national security advisor said ...
Lithuania has no official information on the Astravyets nuclear power plant's planned launch on Friday, the chairman of the parliamentary Committee on National Security and Defense and the energy minister say.
Extremists do not pose any special threat to Lithuania's national security, the chairman of the Seimas Committee on National Security and Defense (CNSD) said on Wednesday.
Vytautas Bakas, former chairman of Lithuania's parliamentary Committee on National Security and Defense, who has information on alleged unlawful collection of information by the State Security Department, says he will seek an parliamentary investigation into the information provided by an intelligen...
Lithuania's State Security Department on Wednesday strongly denied the information provided by an intelligence officer that it allegedly collected information on people who were part of then presidential candidate Gitanas Nauseda's circle and diplomat Vygaudas Usackas.
The Lithuanian State Security Department (SSD) plans to strengthen its internal control to bring it in more into line with the Seimas ombudsman's recommendations.
Members of the Lithuanian parliamentary Committee on National Security and Defense, representing the opposition conservative Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats, are suggesting establishing the institution of an intelligence ombudsman.
The amendments to the Law on Intelligence, proposed by Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda, would expand the powers of intelligence services but some of them might run counter to human rights and distort the essence of intelligence, lawyers and lawmakers who looked into the bill say.
The Lithuanian parliament adopted on Thursday an amendment to the Criminal Code that details the president's right to pardon a convict involved in a spy swap deal.
Lithuanian Minister of National Defense Raimundas Karoblis said on Wednesday he hopes to sign the contract on the purchase of almost 200 American JLTVs in November.
Lithuania and Russia have agreed on an exchange of people convicted of espionage, well-informed sources have confirmed to BNS.
At the opposition's initiative, the Seimas Committee on National Security and Defense (NSGK) plans to discuss the circumstances surrounding the bidding process for a 100-million-euro contract for the construction of the Lithuanian part of the Gas Interconnector Poland-Lithuania (GIPL)
The chairman of the Lithuanian Seimas' Committee on National Security and Defense (NSGK) does not think that MP Irina Rozova's participation in an event of the Interparliamentary Assembly on Orthodoxy (IAO) in Georgia in June may have compromised national security.
