Lithuania Demands Better Security Guarantees For Baltics From NATO

 Lithuania expects NATO to improve its defense plans for the three Baltic states following the announcement of a nuclear arms pact between Russia and Belarus, its foreign minister said.

Gabrielius Landsbergis told the Financial Times in an interview published on Monday that safeguards for Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia would be high on the agenda of the next NATO summit that his country will host from July 11-12.

"The Baltic states have to be reinforced. Lithuania has to be reinforced because we have a vulnerable territory," Landsbergis was quoted as saying by the British daily.