01:15Germany: 'NATO to install command and control units' on Russian border - SG Stoltenberg
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg stated that while it was not the organisation’s intention to isolate Russia, NATO would immediately establish ‘command and control units’ in six eastern European states. Stoltenberg delivered his comments at the Munich Security Conference on Friday, focusing on the question of the Ukrainian crisis and NATO’s mobilisation.
The NATO leader said that rapid response units would be installed in Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Bulgaria, Estonia, and Latvia.
He added that member states were ‘fundamentally changing NATO's defence posture’, and that it was the biggest reinforcement of NATO’s collective defence since the end of the cold war.
Stoltenberg’s comments come as German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande are set to hold trilateral talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin on the Ukrainian crisis in Moscow, Friday.
01:15NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg stated that while it was not the organisation’s intention to isolate Russia, NATO would immediately establish ‘command and control units’ in six eastern European states. Stoltenberg delivered his comments at the Munich Security Conference on Friday, focusing on the question of the Ukrainian crisis and NATO’s mobilisation.
The NATO leader said that rapid response units would be installed in Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Bulgaria, Estonia, and Latvia.
He added that member states were ‘fundamentally changing NATO's defence posture’, and that it was the biggest reinforcement of NATO’s collective defence since the end of the cold war.
Stoltenberg’s comments come as German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande are set to hold trilateral talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin on the Ukrainian crisis in Moscow, Friday.