Riga - Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite called Saturday for NATO to develop a comprehensive defence plan for the Baltic states.

"We appeal for and demand security in the form of a NATO emergency plan for the Baltic region," Grybauskaite said after a summit meeting at Riga castle with her Latvian and Estonian counterparts, Valdis Zatlers and Toomas Hendrik Ilves.

Later in the day at a NATO conference being held in the Latvian capital, Grybauskaite expanded on her demand for better protection from the military alliance.

"NATO does not have a defense plan for the Baltic states. Poland, other countries have such plans, but we don't," Grybauskaite said.

"In my country we have a unanimous opinion that the Baltics ought to be protected at the same level as any other member of the alliance," she added. (dpa)