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Germany Cancels Planned Armored Vehicles’ Supplies to Lithuania

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In summer 2014, Lithuania announced its intention to modernize its military forces and Germany was expected to contribute to the process.

A spokesman of the German Ministry of Defense announced that Germany will not supply Lithuania with Boxer armored fighting vehicles as was expected before.

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Deliveries of armored transport vehicles from the Bundeswehr or their resale are not expected in the coming years, the spokesman said.

Lithuanian authorities sent a request for military equipment supplies to the German Ministry of Defense of Germany in summer of 2014 when they decided to modernize the armed forces of the country.

The cancellation of the weapons supplies means that the German government respects the agreement between NATO and Russia on non-deployment of large military units in Eastern Europe, according to the German newspaper “Die Welt”. However, spokesman of the CSU political party, Florian Hahn, mentioned that anxiety of the Baltic states with regard to the Ukrainian crisis is justified and that Germany should support its NATO and EU partners in the Baltic region as much as possible.

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