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Tuesday, January 15th 2008, 8:03am

Treaty of Kaunas

Treaty of Kaunas (Russian-Lithuanian Mutual Assistance Pact):

The Republic of Lithuania and the Russian Federation in view of recent diplomatic trends and developments, recognise the need to provide for the long term defensive needs of both countries in the Baltic region. To this end, both countries have agreed to the following articles.

Article I

Lithuania and Russian Federation will render military and other forms of aid to each other if one of the Contracting parties is subjected to military attack.

Article II

Contracting Parties shall negotiate a military staff agreement specifying forces to be employed and operations to be conducted under different contingencies.

Article III

Russia shall provide material and technical assistance to Lithuania for building land and coastal fortifications and othe required facilities.

For the Republic of Lithuania

/s/ President Antaras Smetona

/s/ Foreign Minister Juozas Urbsys

For the Russian Federation

/s/ President Viktor Chernov

/s/ Foreign Minister Maksim Litvinov


Signed and Ratified, June 29th, 1935, in Lithuanian and Russian.

This post has been edited 1 times, last edit by "Agent148" (Jan 15th 2008, 8:04am)