The Ministry of defence of Britain: NATO will not establish permanent bases in the Baltic States
NATO does not intend to establish permanent bases on the area of the Baltic countries, said the head of the Ministry of defense of great Britain Philip Hammond. the development of permanent bases in the space of the Baltic States " is not a point of view neither the UK government nor NATO ", drew attention Hammond during his speech on Wednesday to the defense Committee of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, ITAR-TASS reported. Thus, the Minister answered the calls of some of the retired British military to strengthen NATO's presence and the UK on the Western borders of Russia in the Baltic sea area. First of before the people's deputies expressed resigned last March, British General sir Richard Shirreff, who served as Deputy commander of NATO in the European Union. According to him, the UK should initiate NATO " restore pyatitysyachnyj contingent rapid response in order to increase its military preparedness to a possible response from Russia." He called for " continuous base the presence of NATO forces in the Baltic States." Without this, NATO will not be able to respond quickly to unexpected attack from the East ", - noticed Shirreff. Remember, by the end of March Anders Fogh Rasmussen said that the events in Ukraine have the opportunity to lead to changes in the approach of the North Atlantic Commonwealth to the admission of new members. For example, Rasmussen said that NATO will continue to expand to the East and strengthen its presence in the member States of the Commonwealth in Eastern Europe. In April, NATO decided to stop for a while interaction with Russia. In June Rasmussen at the meeting of Ministers of foreign Affairs of NATO in Brussels said that the current relations between Russia and NATO " Clearly there is no trust ", telling about the security challenges, which seem to be coming to an organization from the East and South. However, in the capital of Russia challenged these claims. After the exacerbation of the situation in Ukraine, the head of the Ministry of defence of Russia Sergey Shoigu said about the " unprecedented " growth of activity of the military might of the USA and NATO in Eastern Europe of the Russian borders.