Lithuania Ready To Host NATO Nuclear Weapons

The country's Constitution may be amended for this purpose.

Lithuania is ready to consider the possibility of amending the Constitution if NATO allies propose to host nuclear weapons on its territory, Deutsche Welle reports.

"We believe that it is necessary to assess the possibility of amending Article 137 of the Constitution of the Republic of Lithuania if our allies propose certain real plans for the deployment of nuclear weapons or their components in Lithuania, as well as to review other commitments," the Delfi portal quotes the country's Defense Minister Dovilė Šakalienė as saying at a press conference on Friday, March 14.

Article 137 of the Lithuanian Constitution prohibits the deployment of weapons of mass destruction and foreign military bases on the territory of this state. At the same time, no one has yet proposed hosting nuclear weapons in Vilnius, Šakalienė noted.

Discussions on deploying nuclear weapons in Eastern Europe

US President Donald Trump will probably not support deploying nuclear weapons in Eastern European states, Vice President J.D. Vance said. "I haven't discussed this with the president, but I would be shocked if he supported deploying nuclear weapons further east in Europe. We're talking about the future of human civilization," he told Fox News on March 13.

Earlier in the day, Polish President Andrzej Duda called on Washington to move nuclear weapons "east" in an interview with the Financial Times. "NATO's borders moved east in 1999, so 26 years later, NATO's infrastructure should also move east. <...> I think not only is it time, but it would be safer if these weapons were already here," he said.

Duda noted that he had already discussed the issue with Trump's special envoy for Russia and Ukraine, Keith Kellogg.

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