New NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, who will officially begin his duties on 1 October, is obliged to provide the reinforcement of the presence of the CIS in Eastern Europe, said on Tuesday the Minister of foreign Affairs of Lithuania Linas Linkevicius, situated on a visit to Oslo.
According to the Minister, who on Tuesday obliged to meet in Norway with Stoltenberg, to ensure the security of the countries of Eastern Europe, NATO is obliged to place additional forces in Eastern Europe." Not so important as to call these forces, the permanent or hosted on a rotational basis - quoted expression of Linkevicius ITAR-TASS.- The point is that they must be there, where needed, when needed, and until then, as long as will be necessary ". Lithuania, which is a member of NATO since March 2004, quite actively advocated strengthening the presence of the Commonwealth in the Baltic States. In the founding act of the NATO-Russia on mutual relations, cooperation and security, signed in 1997, among other things, declared the refusal of NATO from the additional placement of the permanent military forces in the area of new member States. Add that to the last week in Wales hosted the NATO summit. The outgoing Commonwealth Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen has covered a lot of topics, but the Russian Federation and Ukraine passed through the speech Rasmussen red thread. Because of this, NATO leaders agreed on the creation of rapid reaction forces to counter the " Russian threat " and on the General strengthening its presence in Eastern Europe.

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