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Lithuanian troop mission helped responding to armed clash in a Ghowr district 2007.02.22
  The Lithuanian led Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) for Ghowr, Afghanistan, provided assistance in preventing an armed clash in one of the districts of Ghowr province. A conflict broke out in the Chahar Sedeh district between policemen and local people last week when the districts leadership and police members came to the Kundah settlement to destroy poppy fields. The operation caused great discontent of the local community as poppy-cultivation is one of major income source in the poor Chahar Sedeh district. The villagers countered police actions by throwing stones at them and later they began using weapons. One person was killed and thirteen injured during the clash.
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Formal homecoming ceremony for soldiers coming back from Iraq 2007.02.19
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MoND officials to take part in the USA and Baltic-Nordic defence undersecretaries for policy meeting in Stockholm 2007.02.19
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Lithuanian soldiers donated blankets for the Afghan National Police 2007.02.19
 On 17 February, soldiers of the Lithuanian led Province Reconstruction Team for Ghowr (PRT 4) delivered 180 warm blankets to the underequipped county police centres and the new supplementary Ghowr police unit of the Afghan National Police.
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Concert of Volunteer Force Rock'n'Roll Band at NATO Headquarters 2007.02.15
 On February 15 National Defence Volunteer Force Rock'n'Roll Band will play at NATO Headquarters in Brussels (Belgium) in the 89th anniversary of Lithuanian Independence Restoration event. NATO Senior Officers and representatives of other members of the Alliance will attend the event.
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16 of February- the Day of Lithuania's Nationhood Restoration 2007.02.13
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Seminar for enterprises intending to take part in the contest of services and equipment supply for Lithuanian camp in Afghanistan 2007.02.13
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Lithuanian soldiers save Afghan people trapped in mountains 2007.02.12
 Troops of Lithuanian led Afghanistan's Ghowr province Reconstruction Team (PRT 4) saved local people who had spent four days trapped in mountains. In the early morning of February 10 Head of Chaghcharan hospital doctor Juma Gul Yaqubi addressed the PRT 4 soldiers asking for their assistance in saving locals. Inhabitants of Chahar Sadeh region affected by disease outburst and treated by the Chaghcharan hospital medics had spent four days trapped in an impassable mountain passage connecting the Chahar Sadeh region and Chaghcharan. Inhabitants of the region in need of urgent medical aid could not reach Chaghcharan. There were 30 people trapped - a few seriously ill and a pregnant woman among them.
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Lithuanian troops assist media of Afghanistan's Ghowr province to make its first steps 2007.02.09
 On February 8 a professional radio station study was fit up in the province of Ghowr with assistance and support of the Lithuanian led PRT-4. Soldiers handed over a motorbike to the radio station personnel and helped them with equipping the studio professionally. Bike is the main vehicle type used in Afghanistan, it could be used for getting to the event scenes to prepare remote coverage. That would result in putting the information on air and showing it on periodical news sooner. Formerly the radio station personnel had no means of transportation.
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National Defence Minister to take part in Munich Conference on Security Policy 2007.02.09
 On February 9 after an informal NATO defence ministers' meeting in Sevilla, Lithuanian Defence Minister Juozas Olekas will leave for Germany along with other high-ranking NATO officials to participate in the 43th Munich Security Conference.
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