Voice of America News
June 1, 2014
German Defense Ministry: NATO to Discuss Reinforcing Troops in Poland
BERLIN: NATO defence ministers will discuss temporarily reinforcing their forces in Poland when they meet in Brussels this week, a spokesman for the German defence ministry said on Sunday.
It has not been decided whether the 28-member alliance will actually reinforce its Multinational Corps Northeast in Szczecin, the spokesman added.
In April Poland’s defence minister said Russia’s military intervention in Ukraine’s Crimea peninsula made it vital that NATO station significant numbers of troops in eastern Europe and ignore any objections Russia might have.
Russia says deployment of significant NATO forces close to Russia would violate the 1997 Founding Act, an agreement between Moscow and the alliance.
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