“A steady growth of defence allocations observed worldwide creates opportunity for enterprises, including Lithuanian, that invest in emerging technology to seize this financial wave. We and Enterprise Lithuania non-profit have initiated our first ever national stand this year where our Lithuanian enterprises will run the show,” Vice Minister of National Defence Giedrimas Jeglinskas says. He and representatives of the Defence Materiel Agency under the Ministry of National Defence are taking part in the largest international defence exhibition Defence & Security Equipment International, DSEI 2019, in London on September 10-13.

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On September 2 – 8 NATO fighter aircraft conducting the NATO Air Policing Mission in the Baltic states carried out three alert scrambles to identify and escort military aircraft of the Russian Federation in international airspace over the Baltic Sea.

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On September 9–11 Vice Minister of National Defence Vytautas Umbrasas and a formal delegation will be conducting a visit to the United States of America.  Vice Minister V. Umbrasas will attend an event organised by the German Marshal Fund and the Ministry of Defence of Latvia and meetings in the Congress, also, the meeting of secretaries of U.S. and Nordic-Baltic ministries of defence and memorial observance of September 11 at the Pentagon.  

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“We a firmly committed to work on our security. We are investing in strengthening and modernisation of our armed forces. We appreciate allies’ presence in Lithuania and we mean to retain it,” V. Umbrasas said at the meeting.

Vice Minister of National Defence V. Umbrasas and Deputy Permanent Secretary at the Danish Ministry of Defence K. Hoeg-Jensen signed a bilateral agreement on reciprocal protection of classified information.

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On September 11 Minister of National Defence Raimundas Karoblis will meet with Governor of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Tom Wolf who is coming on a formal visit to Lithuania. The guest delegation will also include Adjutant General of Pennsylvania Major General  Anthony Carrelli.

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“The Battle of Orsha revealed the military potential of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, highlighted the prospects of military cooperation with the Kingdom of Poland and was significant for the history of military art: for the first time different branches of service – cavalry, infantry and artillery – were fighting jointly,”- says Minister of National Defence Raimundas Karoblis, who will be attending the event and congratulating those gathered at the Barbican to celebrate one of the largest victories of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania against the army of the Duchy of Moscow.

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