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‘We highly value the solidarity demonstrated by our Allies. We are grateful to Germany for taking the lead of the multinational battalion in Lithuania’ said president of Lithuania Dalia Grybauskaite during the welcoming ceremony at the Rukla military base close to second biggest Lithuanian city of Kaunas.

Grybauskaite was joined by German minister of Defense Ursula von der Leyen who said during the ceremony that Lithuania will never again stand alone.

The German troops will head up a force including Belgian, Dutch and French soldiers, among other nations, that will reach full strength of some 1,200 members this spring.

The international battalion is one of four NATO is providing on a rotational basis to Lithuania. Three similar NATO units, led by the US, Canada and Britain, will be deployed this year in Poland, Latvia and Estonia.

The countries requested the troops after Russia's 2014 annexation of Crimea from Ukraine.

In recent years, Lithuania has purchased about half a billion euros' worth of German-made armored vehicles, artillery and military trucks.
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Shots from ceremony

Sound bite (English), DALIA GRYBAUSKAITE, President of Lithuania: We highly value the solidarity demonstrated by our Allies. We are grateful to Germany for taking the lead of the multinational battalion in Lithuania. And today we welcome soldiers from United States, Belgium, the Netherlands, and the Czech Republic. We also grateful top Luxembourg, Norway, France and Croatia for commitment and contribution.

Cutaway

Sound bite (English), URSULA VON DER LEYEN, German Minister of Defense: Next year you, the freedom loving people of this proud country, will celebrate the centenary of your independence in modern times. Yet from the very beginning your freedom had been under threat. Lithuania stood alone against powerful neighbors. (Minister further says that Lithuania will never again stand alone, but LRT camera man cut the recording before she said that)

Grybauskaite meets von der Leyen

Sound bite (English), URSULA VON DER LEYEN, German Minister of Defense: We don’t know how the elections (in Germany) going to be, but there is a strong commitment among all parties in Germany to stick to commitments we promised to fulfil and there is a strong commitment to NATO as well as to European Union.

Two shots of military vehicles

Sound bite (German), URSULA VON DER LEYEN, German Minister of Defense: Speaks in German about Europe’s role in NATO, but due to poor language knowledge I cannot provide the exact translation…

More of Grybauskaite inspecting troops with von der Leyen

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