Lithuania urges Trump to uphold NATO security commitments
PABRADE- Lithuania's president on Friday urged Donald Trump to uphold the United States' security commitment to Europe amid questions about the U.S. president-elect's intentions toward his NATO allies.
Watching over major NATO war games at Pabrade, near her small Baltic country's border with Belarus, President Dalia Grybauskaite said that as "the guarantor of peace after the Second World War in Europe," the United States long has shared responsibility for the continent's safety.
"We expect that this mission, and this understanding, will stay," Grybauskaite said.
Trump suggested during election campaigning that only NATO allies paying their fair share deserve protection from the United States. His rhetoric rattled Lithuania, its Baltic neighbors Latvia and Estonia, and Poland, which all count on NATO's collective security to deter an unpredictable Russia.
