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Friday, March 14, 2014

PM: Patriot missiles could be deployed in Lithuania, if needed

Patriot systemNobody will stop us from buying Patriot missiles if the defence ministry and military decide we need them, Lithuanian Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius says.

“Let’s be clear about the missiles: if the national defence minister and the chief of defence say they must be purchased, nobody will stand in their way, and they have enough funds this year- they probably have over 600 million litas (EUR 173 million) now,” Butkevičius said in an interview with the Žinių Radijas news radio on Thursday.

Last week, the prime minister said that reports about official plans to deploy Patriot missiles were false. “There’s no concrete plan, that information is totally untrue,” he told Laisvoji Banga radio on Friday.

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