Poland ready to accept new command center of NATO on its territory

Poland ready to accept new command center of NATO, said the minister of defence of the republic anthony macierewicz at a briefing following the meeting of defence ministers of NATO countries in brussels, reports polish agency pap. We are ready to host the new centre of NATO command said macierewicz. He said that the decision about the specific location of the centre will be taken at the meeting of the heads of the defense alliance in february 2018. Currently, in the polish elblag near the Russian border is establishing a command centre, who will lead the NATO units in Eastern Europe. It was reported that he will give at the disposal of NATO in 2017. The head of the defense ministry of Poland announced that the headquarters in elbląg "Will coordinate a common action of all combat battalion groups, NATO hosted in Poland. " at the NATO summit in Warsaw in 2016, a decision was made about the unprecedented strengthening of the Eastern flank of the alliance.

The alliance has decided to place in latvia, Lithuania, Estonia and Poland at the request of those countries, multinational battalions on a rotational basis. It was then decided that the basis of the contingent of the battalion located in latvia, will represent Canada, Lithuania, Germany, Estonia, UK, Poland, the United States, RIA Novosti reported.