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Raimundas Karoblis’ name has so far not been well known in Lithuania. A career diplomat with over 20 years of experience, he himself was surprised by the proposal to become Minister of National Defence. He is inheriting a ministry with both an impressively rising budget and at the same time – the taint of corruption, but the former diplomat tells Delfi TV that in the end he decided to operate on the idea of “If need be, then so be it”.
Minister of Defence Raimundas Karoblis at the DELFI TV conference
Minister of Defence Raimundas Karoblis at the DELFI TV conference
© DELFI / Karolina Pansevič

A vastly increased work tempo, already occurring meetings with Baltic and Polish ministers of defence, such was the agenda of the new minister, who assures he sometimes continues to use public transport to go to work.

Having worked in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for the majority of his

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