NATO will guard the Baltic sky until 2011, possibly longer
Posted by editor on 8/26/09 • Categorized as Baltic States, Security • 
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NATO’s Secretary General A. F. Rasmussen has assured Lithuania that NATO air policing mission in Lithuania and other Baltic States will be continued until 2001 and, most likely, beyond, as the Presidential office press release stated. Those guarantees were presented to the Lithuanian President Grybauskaite official visit to the Brussels on 25 August.
The leaders also discussed NATO’s new strategic concept and a strengthened defence of the Allies. Grybauskaite noted that Lithuania expected to receive specific plans on how NATO would defend Lithuania and the other Baltic nations.
According to the press release Grybauskaite underlined the shaping of NATO’s new strategic concept by the end of the next year must be built on Article 5 of the Treaty of Washington as a fundamental principle. According to the President, the emergence of new threats and a changed global security situation must be taken into consideration when applying this principle.
President Grybauskaitė also stressed Lithuania was expecting concrete plans as to how NATO intends to defend our country and other Baltic States.
Lithuanian President, on her part has assured NATO’s Secretary General of Lithuania’s continued engagement in international security missions in Afghanistan but pointed out the need for NATO Member States to cooperate more closely in searching for additional sources of financing if successful operation of the Ghor Provisional Reconstruction Group is to be ensured.
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