FILE PHOTO: Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda visits troops deployed at the Belarus border in Druskininkai, Lithuania November 22, 2021. REUTERS/Janis Laizans
November 28, 2021
VILNIUS (Reuters) – Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda said on Sunday that the NATO military alliance needs to change its stance towards Belarus, whose military, he said, was becoming more integrated with Russian armed forces.
Nauseda also told a news conference after meeting NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen that Belarus would keep testing the unity of the west.
“We can have no doubts that Lukashenko’s regime and the powers that support it will continue to test the western world’s unity and their ability to react and repel the hybrid attacks,” Nauseda said.
(Reporting by Andrius Sytas, writing by Philip Blenkinsop, Editing by Louise Heavens)
