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Foreign Vice-Minister Plepytė met with NATO Deputy Secretary General

Republic of Lithuania - Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Updated 2025-09-18

On 17 September, during a working visit to Brussels, the Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania, Audra Plepytė, met with NATO Deputy Secretary General Radmila Shekerinska.

On 17 September, during a working visit to Brussels, the Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania, Audra Plepytė, met with NATO Deputy Secretary General Radmila Shekerinska.

The Vice-Minister underlined the importance of consistent support for Ukraine and pressure on Russia to end its aggression, as well as the need to implement NATO's core commitments and strengthen the Alliance's deterrence and defence, especially in the field of air defence.

The Vice-Minister thanked R. Šekerinska for the leadership shown by the NATO Secretary General in announcing on 12 September Eastern Sentry, a new enhanced NATO military mission aimed at deterring airspace violations.

According to A. Plepytė, the Alliance's response to airspace violations in Poland and other countries of the Eastern Flank must be resolute and send a strong message to Russia that the Alliance will defend every centimeter of its territory. She also welcomed the rapid activation of NATO's Eastern Sentry mission. According to the Vice-Minister, the successful increased patrolling under the Baltic Sentry initiative, launched in January 2025, has already demonstrated NATO's swift response to the threats posed by the shadow fleet.

NATO's Deputy Secretary General thanked Lithuania as an exemplary ally for its strong and consistent stance in implementing its commitment to increase defence spending, supporting Ukraine, rallying allies, and hosting the German Brigade in Lithuania.

The Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs A. Plepytė was paying a working visit to Brussels on 16 and 17 September, where she met with European Union and NATO officials. The agenda of the meetings included priority items on the security policy agenda, such as defence funding, measures to tighten NATO and EU air defence, enhancing NATO's Eastern Flank defence with drones, and countering hybrid threats.