WARSAW: The president of Baltic state Lithuania said Saturday that NATO’s landmark decision to reinforce its vulnerable eastern flank created the right conditions to renew dialogue with Russia.
Dalia Grybauskaite, known as Lithuania’s “Iron Lady” for her hard line on Moscow, told Agence France-Presse she was “softening” after NATO on Friday endorsed its biggest military revamp since the end of the Cold War in response to the Ukraine conflict.
The Western defense alliance committed itself to sending four battalions of around 1,000 troops each to Poland and the Baltic states of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, which fear Russia may make further moves …read more
Source: The Manila Times
