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Lithuania wants to host the ABM USA

Lithuanian authorities are interested in the example of Poland and the Czech Republic in the deployment on its territory anti-missile systems. That told reporters in Chisinau Lithuanian Defense Minister Juozas Olekas, summing up today ended his visit to Moldova.

“These systems need our country. There is a danger that in a few years in unstable countries, it finds the technical capacity to attack. The world must contain this process. One solution is a Missile System, the proposed NATO, “said the minister.

Minister did not agree with the view that the installation of anti-missile systems in the new states of Europe directed against Russia and is the first step towards a new Cold War. “They serve as a guarantor of stability in the region,” stressed the head of the Lithuanian Defense Ministry.

He also suggested that the Moldovan side “to join the NATO peacekeeping mission in Afghanistan. At a press Olekas cited Lithuanian military, which in this country reconstruct provinces affected by the fighting and other humanitarian issues.