The foreign ministers of the Baltic countries held talks in Washington with US President's advisor John Bolton. During the conversation, I raised the issue of regional air defense and strengthen NATO battalion in the Baltic States air force and navy, said Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius.
Now we have a forward-based forces and certain limited, but the international force is our security. We're not just talking about ground forces, we would like to in the future, at least the prospect of, so that they were involved naval forces and air – said the head of the Lithuanian Foreign Ministry
Linkevičius added, that the Baltic countries it is important to, Allied to stay “It was great, not only in quantitative terms, but also more diverse in its forms”: it may be teaching, visits, dislocation technique, branches of military bases.
According to the minister, meeting with Bolton, who started work a few weeks ago in this post, It lets hope for good cooperation.
International NATO battalion in the Baltic States and Poland are located in 2017 year. Alliance claims, that thus responds to Russia's aggression in Ukraine. In Moscow says, that block actions jeopardize Russia's security.
