D. Grybauskaitė: NATO is even faster and better prepared

"Lithuania has always considered that the Nord Stream 2 project was geopolitical, politically entangled, with no economic justification and compelling some European countries to a free energy policy," presidents said Wednesday at the NATO summit .

"We know that with Russian energy instruments, Russia still has an influence on domestic politics, so I think such criticism is justified," says Grybauskaitė.

D. Shortly after the start of the NATO summit on Wednesday in Brussels, he attacked Germany and said the gas deal with Moscow had made the country a Russian prisoner. "Germany is a Russian prisoner because it receives a lot of energy from Russia" taking into account the gas pipeline agreement. "Everyone around the world is talking about it, they say we are paying billions of dollars to protect you, but you are paying billions of dollars to Russia," he said.

D. In short added that "Germany is fully controlled by Russia."

Germany has often become the target of short criticism. The president accuses Europe's largest economy of insufficient expenditure on defamation and defamation at the expense of the United States.

D. Shortly after Wednesday, he reiterated his wider accusations against the whole of NATO that countries pay too little.

"We defend Germany, France and all … It takes decades," said the President of the United States. "We will not tolerate that and it will not be appropriate."

D. Grybauskaite argued that the US commander's request for allies to increase defense funding was "sufficiently legitimate".

"We have been talking about this in practice since 2006, but many countries have not even gone in that direction. I am pleased that we are getting closer to this goal, we are investing in our defense, and we are now able to say that we support all the good NATO modernization initiatives that remain, "said the President

]. because the defense is unfounded.

"There is probably a rhetorical question here, because there are no formal agreements.These are gentleman's agreements and understanding between partners that this should be invested It would not be necessary to talk about some kind of debt, "said Grybauskaitė.

Lithuanian leaders declare that defense funding this year will reach the 2% goal of NATO. gross domestic product.

Concerned about D. Brief meeting with Putin

The President of Lithuania is worried about the upcoming presidential meeting with Russia. leader of Vladimir Putin.

"We are always worried, we know what Putin is, we know who our neighbor is and we know what to expect, so we look at the benefits of this meeting and the possible results." President said at a NATO summit in Brussels

Next week, the US-Russian summit in Helsinki, D. Grybauskaitė compared to D. Short and Kim Jong. Uno (Kim Čen Uno) speaks.

"We attended another interesting controversial meeting with the leader of North Korea, where the results, I would say, were also very controversial," said Grybauskaitė.

After a meeting with North Korea Leader D. A brief, unexpected announcement in June that he would suspend joint military exercises with South Korea.

D He complained that the exercise was expensive and accepted the qualification of "provocative" of North Korea.

The head of the US state said on the suspension of the exercises after signing with Kim Jong Uni a document committing North Korea Critics say the statement lacks content and specificity, some see it as a warning that D. Trump may make unexpected concessions to Russia as a result of US forces in Eastern Europe.

D. Grybauskaitė: NATO is even faster and better prepared

According to Lithuanian leader Dalia Grybauskaitė, NATO stands united against the Russian threat and strengthens its security reply. Increase the Alliance's combat readiness, provide reinforcing forces and concrete techniques, speed up deployment procedures, set up special teams to respond to hybrid threats.

The leaders of the parties agreed on the NATO Initiative. By 2020 Special high level forces will be created. They will consist of 30 security battalions, 30 aviation squadrons and 30 warships that will reinforce the NATO Response Force within 30 days.

Also approved for the reform of NATO Command. The Alliance launches 2 new headquarters in the US and Germany, strengthens the base of the US Air Force Ramstein in Germany and will continue to transform other headquarters. Lithuania's interest in bringing Alliance structures closer to emerging threats and ensuring a rapid response of NATO to the crisis.

Heads of state took into account the needs of Lithuania. The summit acknowledged the lack of air defense in the Baltic states and instructed the NATO military authorities to badess the current risks and by 2019.

The parties committed themselves, in accordance with NATO and EU standards, to simplify and speed up troop movement procedures. From now until 2019 By the end of the year, permits for military units crossing the borders will be issued within five days and will aim to accelerate their issuance in the future . Lithuania is a leader in this field. Diplomatic pbades are most likely issued in Europe – within 24 hours

In cooperation with the EU, it has been agreed to improve road, rail and civil infrastructure, by l + 39; adapting to military needs. In the new financial perspectives of the EU, it is planned to spend about 6.5 billion euros. euro Lithuania needs a total of 430 million.

The response to hybrid threats is also strengthened – special NATO teams are being set up.

Heads of State invited the Republic of Macedonia to open negotiations on NATO membership.