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Lithuania strives for Transatlantic Solidarity in Security Issues Added 2005-12-08 On 7-8 December during NATO Foreign Ministers meeting in Brussels Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Antanas Valionis emphasised the importance of transatlantic solidarity. In the NATO Foreign Ministers meeting NATO Secretary General Jaap de...
Photo exhibition on Lithuanian - led PRT in Afghanistan opened at NATO HQ Added 2005-11-28 On November 28, a photo exhibition titled “The Wind of Change: PRT in Chagcharan”, was opened at NATO Headquarters by NATO Secretary General together with Lithuanian Ambassador to NATO Linas Linkevicius.  “ I think your nation is setting...
Interdepartmental Commission completed the investigation of Russian fighter crash in Lithuania Added 2005-10-04 On Tuesday, 4 October Lithuanian Minister of National Defence Gediminas Kirkilas submitted conclusions of the Lithuanian Interdepartmental Commission appointed to investigate the causes of the crash of the Russian aircraft fighter SU-27 on the...
North Atlantic Council delegation visited Lithuania-led PRT in Afghanistan Added 2005-10-04 Lithuanian Permanent Representative Linas Linkevicius, together with the North Atlantic Council led by NATO Secretary General, Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, and accompanied by the Supreme Allied Commander Europe, General James Jones and the Chairman of...
Lithuania-led Provincial Reconstruction Team has moved to the new base camp Added 2005-09-03 On Saturday, 3 September, troops of the Lithuania-led Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) in Afghanistan’s province of Ghor raised the Lithuania’s national flag at the new base camp located from the old one just a half of a kilometre away. The...
Extension of rotation period of NATO air policing mission over the Baltic States under consideration Added 2005-07-07 NATO suggests extending a rotation period of air detachments involved in the NATO air-policing mission over the three Baltic States -- from three up to four months. The rotation extension would allow for reducing costs of the host nation as well...
German troops to replace Dutch counterparts in air policing mission in Lithuania Added 2005-06-30 On Thursday, 30 June a ceremony of handing over the NATO’s air policing mission in the Baltic States will take place at the Siauliai airfield of the Lithuanian Air Force. The outgoing Dutch troops will be replaced by their counterparts from...
Squadron of the Lithuanian Special Operations Force to be on duty within NATO’s Reaction Force Added 2005-06-28 As of 1 July the Aitvaras-05 Squadron of the Lithuanian Special Operations Force (SOF) is due to take on a duty within the NATO’s Response Force (NRF). The squadron of the Special Operations Force is the second unit of the Lithuanian...
Chief of Defence of Lithuania left for Afghanistan Added 2005-06-27 On Monday, 27 June Commander of the Lithuanian Armed Forces, Major General Valdas Tutkus, left for Afghanistan, where he is to meet with Lithuanian troops serving within the composition of the Lithuanian-led Ghor Provincial Reconstruction Team...
Lithuanian troops arrived in Afghanistan’s Ghor province Added 2005-06-20 On Monday, 20 June 65 Lithuanian troops arrived in Chakhcharan in Afghanistan, where they are to lead one of the North Atlantic Alliance’s reconstruction team in Afghanistan’s Ghor province with a base located in the provincial capital of...