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VILNIUS, Lithuania, Aug. 20 (UPI) -- Lithuania won't relax tight controls on Russian military forces crossing his country to Kaliningrad, President Valdas Adamkus said Friday.
"The transit has been conducted for a whole decade according to an agreed procedure which meets Russia's needs and Lithuania's interests. Therefore I don't think that this procedure should be changed," Adamkus told the Interfax news agency.
Lithuania was a former Soviet republic forcibly occupied by the Soviet Union in 1940. Since regaining independence during the collapse of the Soviet Union, it has become a full member of both the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and the European Union. Kaliningrad is a Russian enclave on the Baltic sea, which is surrounded by land by Lithuanian territory.
"Lithuania is a full member of the EU therefore the transit across its territory cannot be an exception from general EU rules," Adamkus said.
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