President Dalia Grybauskaitė, who is attending the NATO Summit in Chicago, underlined that at this summit Lithuania had achieved and reaffirmed all the goals it sought to ensure the security of our country and people. Decisions taken at the Summit include the extension of NATO’s Air Policing mission indefinitely, collective defence guarantees (in accordance with Article 5 of the Washington Treaty), approved measures to implement contingency plans, no division into missile defence sectors, and the protection of Allies by a full-fledged, effective and independent NATO missile defence system.
President Dalia Grybauskaitė, currently attending the NATO Summit in Chicago, delivered a speech at the North Atlantic Council which focused on the issues of defence in times of austerity, the security environment, new threats and challenges.
President Dalia Grybauskaitė is attending the NATO Summit in Chicago to discuss the issues on agenda: the strengthening of collective defence, the missile defence system, the mission in Afghanistan, and new threats. Tomorrow, May 21, Dalia Grybauskaitė is expected to have a meeting with US President Barack Obama, which will also be attended by Latvian President Andris Bērziņš and Estonian Prime Minister Andrus Ansip.
President Obama, Mr. Secretary General, Dear Colleagues, This is our fourth NATO Summit in four years. Last time we met was in Lisbon, where we agreed on a New Strategic Concept of NATO. It seems that we meet often, yet at every meeting there are new challenges that we need to discuss and there are new issues that we must make serious decisions on.
Dear Fellow People of Lithuania, I would like to extend my warmest wishes for a great Easter holiday, a celebration of spring and rebirth. May Easter morning bring each of you inspiration, new hope and strength. May the awakening nature, the twitter of birds and the sunshine fill you with love, joy and optimism.
Dear Fellow People of Lithuania, Today as we stand and watch our national tricolor going up, we feel deeply grateful to those who turned the twilight of February 16th into the dawn of hope. Twenty signatories – and the many brave patriots behind them – proclaimed the restoration of Lithuanian independence. They inspired future generations to cherish freedom and to fight for it. We have the Declaration of Independence as a testimony of those days and a commitment to great accomplishments by a small nation. But we have much more than that.
