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DGIMS in Berlin Security Conference: the war in Ukraine has brought EU and NATO even closer together
19 November 2025
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Berlin, 19 November 2025 – Director General of the International Military Staff (DGIMS), Lieutenant General Remigijus Baltrėnas participated in the Berlin Security Conference 2025. Together with the State Secretary of the Ministry of Defence of Norway, Chargé d’Affaires at U.S. Embassy in Berlin, and Ambassador of Finland to Germany, DGIMS represented NATO at the high-level debate “The Transatlantic Bond”. The debate was chaired by the State Secretary of the German Federal Foreign Office Dr. Géza von Geyr.
In his remarks Lieutenant General R. Baltrėnas expressed the gratitude to Germany for its efforts in building and strengthening NATO’s military capabilities. He observed that transatlantic bond will continue to be strong if the United States of America stays committed, European pillar in the NATO will become stronger, and defence industrial base of Europe will become bigger. “If we continue to be fully committed to those three prerequisites, and ensure timely innovation and adaptation, then we will continue to be the most successful Alliance in the world,” said Lieutenant General R. Baltrėnas.
Speaking about strengthening NATO and its bonds with lessons learned from Ukraine DGIMS thanked the Joint Analysis, Training and Education Centre (JATEC) in Poland. This centre provides analytical, education and training capabilities to identify and apply lessons from Russia’s war against Ukraine jointly with Ukrainians. It helps that knowledge to appear in NATO strategy, policy, doctrine, tactics and operations.
“NATO is constantly adapting. JATEC in Poland brings the real combat proven lessons, the knowledge and the experience from the war zone to the NATO tactical level. At the political strategic level there is a NATO Ukrainian Council and at the military strategic level we have Joint Military Committee with Ukraine where we share strategic lessons. Together we are looking in to the best ways to transfer them to NATO nations.” stated DGIMS.
On the NATO and EU cooperation LTG R. Baltrėnas emphasized that as DGIMS he works closely with EU Director General of the International Military Staff, and discuss defence topics regularly. „Cooperation between EU and NATO is deep and the war in Ukraine has brought both organizations even close together. This cooperation is not about duplication of efforts, it is about complementarity of each other,” said Lieutenant General Baltrėnas.
Berlin Security Conference is one of the largest European security and defence policy events.The congress and exhibition, held every autumn since 2001 in Berlin, draw participants from European and non-European countries, the European institutions, and NATO. The 24th Berlin Security Conference took place at the Vienna House Andel’s Berlin on 18-19 November 2025.