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Abu Zubaydah, a Saudi now held at Guantánamo Bay, says he was kept in the secret CIA site in Lithuania and has called on the European court of human rights to rule that Lithuania acted illegally.

Lithuania's prime minister, Andrius Kubilius, takes his holidays in Belarus, cycling round the sites of the old Grand Duchy of Lithuania, with the local KGB (as it is still called) in polite but puzzled pursuit.

Lithuania is hoping to join in 2015 and a debate in neighbouring Poland is also kicking off, with signs there that the government would like to enter the single currency within a few years.

The reason, he said, is that Lithuania and the other Baltic states were willing to take the hit and "to suffer for a bigger cause".

These countries have come out the other side – Lithuania joined the euro this year, Latvia the year before.

As the ambassador acknowledges, Lithuania was part of the USSR.

The defence ministers of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania were meeting on Thursday and the situation in the Baltic sea would be the "number one topic of the meeting", Siemoniak said.

"We'll find it hard to bring attendances back to a very high level because of the opponents we're playing in qualifying – they won't be exciting the public," said Hodgson, with games against San Marino, Estonia, Slovenia, Lithuania and the Swiss ahead.

Concerns about the aims of expanding Kremlin-backed media outlets are especially palpable in Russia's EU member neighbours, the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, which all have significant Russian-speaking minorities, as does Ukraine.

So far, the document has been approved by Austria, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Lithuania, Slovakia, Slovenia and Spain.

Cameron is also determined to ensure the summit makes clear that Nato is "utterly resolved" to block any Russian attempt to repeat its destabilisation tactics in the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania – all members of Nato and the EU.