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Hussar said at the meeting that close Baltic cooperation in enhancing regional security and supporting Ukraine has played an important role in ensuring stability in the region.
“Our cooperation has achieved results that we can develop further through bilateral relations as well as through work in the Baltic Assembly and Nordic-Baltic cooperation (NB8),” Hussar said.
The state of regional infrastructure projects was also discussed. “We need close cooperation to complete Rail Baltic as soon as possible for quick railway connections between the Baltic states and Europe,” Hussar emphasised.
Hussar and Olekas stressed the need to involve representatives of European countries in the peace negotiation process in Ukraine. They highlighted the need to ensure European unity both in supporting Ukraine and in relations with the USA.
“We are facing a range of new hybrid threats in security and defence, which we need to counter through efficient cooperation,” Hussar said.
Olekas referred to the major problems linked to the balloons flown from Belarus to Lithuanian air space, which pose a threat to aviation.
Hussar and Olekas underlined the urgent need to find efficient measure to combat hybrid attacks against civilian aviation both in the Lithuanian air space as well as the region in general.
Also present at the meeting of the speakers was the Chairman of the Estonia-Lithuania Parliamentary Friendship Group Enn Eesmaa who acknowledged the fruitful cooperation with the Lithuanian colleagues in the framework of the Baltic Assembly.
The Speaker of the Lithuanian parliament is meeting with President Alar Karis and Prime Minister Kristen Michal in Tallinn today. He will also visit the Rail Baltic construction site with Lauri Hussar, Minister of Infrastructure Kuldar Leis, and CEO of Rail Baltic Estonia Anvar Salomets. Olekas will also visit the defence industry company DefSecIntel and meet with the Lithuanian community.
Photos (Author: Erik Peinar / Chancellery of the Riigikogu)
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