Il ministro della Difesa americano James Mattis è arrivato in Lituania per incontri con funzionari locali e per una visita a un sito della Nato. Lo ha reso noto il Dipartimento della Difesa Usa. “Il segretario alla Difesa Jim Mattis è arrivato oggi a Vilnius, in Lituania, dove incontrerà i leader baltici e visiterà una presenza avanzata della Nato” si legge in un comunicato.
US Secretary of Defense James Mattis has arrived in Lithuania for meetings with local officials and a visit to a NATO battlegroup deployment site, the Department of Defense said in a release on Tuesday. “Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis arrived in Vilnius, Lithuania today where he will meet with Baltic leaders and visit an enhanced forward presence NATO battlegroup,” the release stated. A decision of the alliance to deploy four multinational battalions to Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland was announced by the alliance’s secretary general after the NATO summit in July 2016.