Lecture by Prime Minsiter Gediminas Kirkilas at the NATO Defense College in Rome: 21 century challenges for the security of the transatlantic community

Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, I am extremely delighted to visit NATO Defense College today, which, with all due respect to all the other institutions, is undoubtedly the key academic institution of the Alliance. That has been demonstrated by its impressive history alone: the idea of such a college had originated with President Eisenhower and has been put into effect soon after the establishment of NATO itself.