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Rasmussen reassures on NATO security guarantees

Oct 14, 2009
By Rokas M. Tracevskis

On Sept. 29, President Dalia Grybauskaite visited the Lithuanian Iron Wolf Mechanized Infantry Brigade in Rukla (Jonava district) to check its readiness for NATO operations.
VILNIUS - NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, visiting the Baltic countries, arrived at Zokniai Air Base near the northern Lithuanian town of Siauliai on Oct. 9. Now the base hosts a German detachment of fighter planes, provided for the NATO air policing mission in the Baltic states. He met with Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite there. Rasmussen said that the Baltics should not be afraid of Russia. In his speech in the Zokniai base, Rasmussen, standing near one of the Eurofigh ...

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