The Baltic States in the near future will appeal to NATO with a request to deploy in the area of permanent military contingent of several thousand people.

"We want to (placement) Connections brigades, each Baltic nation received the battalion," said the Commissioner of the armed forces of Lithuania captain Mindaugas Neimantas Agency. The NATO connection often has about 3-5 thousand soldiers.

According to Neimantas, the generals of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia in the near future will send a General request to the commander of the joint armed forces of NATO in the European Union Philip Breedlove. Neimantas also noticed that such a move is necessary as a deterrent measure in terms of the security situation in the area ".

The Agency emphasizes that in the Baltic States and Poland since last year on a rotating basis based about 600 American soldiers. This fact underlines the Agency raises concerns among European NATO allies, such as Germany, which I believe, because it could violate a 1997 agreement between NATO and Russia, in which the Alliance is obliged not to deploy substantial combat forces on a permanent basis within their countries recruits.

first, in April the head of the Ministry of defence of Latvia Raimonds Vejonis also said that the competent authorities during official meetings in the U.S. capital will ask the U.S. air defense system and the permanent presence of NATO troops in the territory of the Baltic States.

in connection with the situation around Ukraine, NATO has adopted a number of measures, which explains the need to provide security of the participating countries. Were strengthened mission air patrol in the Baltic countries (in Alliance with 2004), the aircraft with radar equipment make regular flights over Poland (joined in 1999) and Romania (joined in 2004), the additional NATO ships in the Baltic and Mediterranean seas.

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