Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė on Monday morning is to meet with Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius, Defence Minister Juozas Olekas, a group of lawmakers and Chief of Defence Arvydas Pocius to discuss the situation in Ukraine, the president’s office said.
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė on Monday morning is to meet with Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius, Defence Minister Juozas Olekas, a group of lawmakers and Chief of Defence Arvydas Pocius to discuss the situation in Ukraine, the president’s office said.
The lawmakers invited to take part in the meeting are Gediminas Kirkilas, deputy speaker of the Seimas and chairman of the parliament’s Committee on European Affairs, Andrius Kubilius, the Seimas opposition leader, Petras Auštrevičius, deputy speaker and a member of the parliament’s Committee on Foreign Affairs, and Benediktas Juodka, chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs,
The Russian parliament’s upper chamber on Saturday granted President Vladimir Putin authorisation to use the country’s armed forces in Ukraine. This decision and Moscow’s deployment of troops in Crimea have sparked a strong response from EU and NATO member states.
Lithuania on Sunday decided to summon its ambassador in Moscow, Renatas Norkus, to Vilnius for consultations.
The Lithuanian and Polish presidents had a phone conversation over the weekend and called for NATO consultations under Article 4 of the alliance’s founding treaty, saying that Russia’s actions threatened the security of the entire region.
The article says that NATO members “will consult together whenever, in the opinion of any of them, the territorial integrity, political independence or security of any of the parties is threatened”.
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