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Grybauskaite highlighted that, while striving to strengthen the state's safety, there was a need to become worried about the threat of the information war.

According to Daiva Ulbinaite, Advisor to President Dalia Grybauskaite, Lithuania had experienced a relatively great number of the information attacks recently and the country should make every effort to preclude the possibility of future information attacks.

"The President highlighted that, having evaluated the threats to the country, we needed to strengthen the forces of the defence in all spheres, including the information space, because Lithuania was experiencing the open information war. The misinformation, the provocation, the propaganda had become the threat to the state's safety," said Ulbinaite after the President's meeting with the executives of the LRT.

According to the Advisor to the President, the national broadcaster had to present the objective and crystal information which would not split the society but would be the first to present the needed information about the events in the country.

Ulbinaite highlighted that "the President's potion is that there is a need to ensure the transparent and sufficient LRT funding, so that the national broadcaster would be capable of performing its tasks".

Director General of LRT Audrius Siaurusevicius said that the national broadcaster had always had the exceptional status among other mass media means.

Siaurusevicius highlighted that the LRT was to strengthen its information broadcasts and, in such a way, was to try to fight against Propaganda against Lithuania.

"The best cure for propaganda is information," said Siaurusevicius.

According to the director general, the LRT demonstrated its direction during the events in Ukraine and the military conflict in Georgia in 2008.

"We will continue broadcasting from the place we can and will try to present the objective and unbiased information so that people would not have to watch foreign channels," said he.

As reported, while delivering the State of the Nation Address at the Seimas, Lithuania's President Dalia Grybauskaite called on all media owners and managers, on every journalist and columnist personally to help our people distinguish lies from truths, to inform society very clearly about the intents directed against our state, and to counter the misinformation and the propaganda of hostile forces.

The President highlighted that Lithuania and other countries were already subjected to an open information war.

"NATO's contingency plans will not protect us from disseminators of disinformation, from lies and provocations. We ourselves have to develop resistance to the propaganda machine. Otherwise, even a trivial song that glorifies the Soviet Union can become openly destructive. For Lithuania, now under the fire of information attacks, openness and transparency is the most effective response. In this regard, our best shield could be civil-minded and responsible media, which would take disrespect to our country as a personal challenge and which would ward off the arrows of lies spreading mistrust in Lithuania," said the President.