News archive (2010 - 01)

January 11, Druskininkai, Minister of National Defence Rasa Juknevičienė met with Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of South Korea.

HE Ambassador came from Denmark to the work visit to Lithuania where he met Lithuanian Minister of National Defence and exchanged views on plans of Lithuanian and South Korean forces' participation in NATO-led operation in Afghanistan.

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At the end of 2009, the book, entitled Russia‘s European Agenda and the Baltic States by Dr. Janina Šleivytė, Senior Advisor to the Lithuanian Ministry of Defence, was published in Great Britain.

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On January 4 shifts of air contingents performing the NATO's Baltic Air-policing mission changed at a ceremony held at the Air Base of the Lithuanian Air Force (Šiauliai). German Air Contingent was replaced by a French unit with four „Mirage-2000" fighter-jets.

The French unit has taken up the responsibility for the mission for a second time (after 2007). The current shift comprises around 150 military the majority of which serve with the French Air Force BA 103 Cambrai air base (north of the country).

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Trilateral Baltic Battalion (BALTBAT) manned by Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia began
duty in the 14th rotation of the NATO Response Force (NRF-14) on January 1. On the same date Lithuanians will also enter half-year standby period in the EU Battle Group.

130 personnel of Lithuanian Contingent in the EU Battle Group comes from Motorised Infantry Company and logistics platoon, CIMIC division, and MP division of King Mindaugas Mechanised Infantry Battalion and includes military assigned to the multinational staff. Other countries represented in the Battle Group along with Lithuania are Poland, Latvia, Slovakia and Germany.

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