The new NATO Secretary General will be announced in accordance with the procedure at the summit of the alliance to be held in Vilnius in July 2023, said Lithuanian Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonytė.

This has nothing to do with rumors about specific candidates, Šimonytė said adding that the final decisions are sometimes such that no one predicted.

Šimonytė did not comment on the Financial Times' information that she herself is one of the candidates for the post of the new secretary general.