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Intensive preparations for the deployment of US weaponry in Lithuania are underway and American experts have already been in the country to evaluate the situation, says Valdemaras Sarapinas, chief adviser to the Lithuanian president on national security.
Following US media reports that the Pentagon may station heavy weapons for its troops in several Eastern European and Baltic countries, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius said on Sunday that these proposals are part of a US Congress-approved program to step up security in Eastern and Cent...
A visit several weeks ago by Kurt Volker, former US ambassador to NATO and currently the head of the McCain Institute, would have gone unnoticed by the Lithuanian public, if it weren't for a few media interviews. And even if it was noticed, many must have thought it of little consequence.
John Shimkus, the only US Republican congressman of close Lithuanian descent, says he is proud of Lithuania being such a staunch ally of the United States, with the ties deeply rooted in the two countries’ long-standing political, economic and cultural collaboration.
The European Union's (EU) Ambassador to Russia Vygaudas Ušackas says that supplying arms to Ukraine would be a risky step, given the possible response on the Russian part.
On April 2 Lithuanian Minister of National Defence Juozas Olekas met with a delegation of US congressmen led by US Congressman and Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee Mac Thornberry, conducting visit in Lithuania, the Ministry reports.
Russia is threatening other countries, because this is Moscow's way of working, US House Committee on Armed Services Chairman Mac Thornberry said in Vilnius on Thursday.
Friendship in dangerous times tends to become even more important, US Congressman John Shimkus, the leader of the Baltic Caucus, said in Lithuania on Tuesday.
During a gruelling 48 whirlwind tour of the US Capital, Professor Vytautas Landsbergis and Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius participated in the 25th anniversary celebration of reinstatement of Lithuanian independence and visited some of the most influential political leaders,...
“The blunt reality is that there will be dwindling appetite and patience in the US Congress—and in the American body politic writ large—to expend increasingly precious funds on behalf of nations that are apparently unwilling to devote the necessary resources or make the necessary changes to be serio...
On Tuesday, 13 January, the Lithuanian community and a large number of American guests commemorated in Washington’s University Club the day in 1991 when the Soviet army attempted to overthrow Lithuania's legitimate government in the aftermath of the collapse of the Soviet Union. The attendants paid ...
The United States of America intend to earmark 13 million US dollars (EUR 10.6m) to infrastructure development of the Lithuanian Air Force Aviation Base in Šiauliai next year.
Lithuanian Ambassador to the United States of America Žygimantas Pavilionis thinks that the US administration under President Barack Obama has been naive in wishing to "reset" relations with Russia, but this is the trap that every new president falls into. He hopes, however, that Obama's successor -...
Western countries must be prepared for even more of Russia's provocations in Ukraine, for unconventional warfare methods, espionage and propaganda, according to US Congressman Adam Schiff.
The Ministry of National Defence is procuring additional Javelin advanced medium range anti-tank guided missile systems for the value of USD 20 million to strengthen national defence capabilities and increase the Lithuanian Armed Forces' stock of medium-range anti-tank weaponry.
The high-level visit of Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko to Washington on 18 September attracted much greater attention in the US capital than any other recent visit of a foreign head of state. His busy schedule saw President Poroshenko in the morning addressing the House of Representatives and ...
The United States will send more troops and military equipment to the Baltic states, US President Barack Obama said during a visit in Estonia on Wednesday.
August 23 marked the seventy-fifth anniversary of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact that divided Europe and facilitated the start of the Second World War. Now remembered as Black Ribbon Day in many countries, it coincided this year with the 25th anniversary of the Baltic Way event. There were several comm...
Lithuania backs the US initiative to strengthen NATO capabilities in the Baltic States, Lithuanian Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius said after a meeting with US congressmen on Friday.
Seventy-five years ago, on 23 August, the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany signed a cooperation and non-aggression pact. The now infamous Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact divided Europe and provided with its secret provisions an evil platform that set the stage for the Second World War. The Molotov-Ribbentrop P...
