The head of the Ministry of defense of Germany Ursula von der Leyen at the meeting, officers of the Bundeswehr in the presence of his Polish colleagues Tomas Semenyaka urged to upgrade their capabilities as a deterrent and to increase the military budget of the country.
" the story is about the need to modernize our your deterrence, " TASS quoted the head of the Ministry of defence of the Federal Republic of Germany. In its statement, the conflict in Ukraine showed that the Russian Federation is trying to exercise sovereign policy in the nineteenth century ", and be solved by military means those problems that cannot be solved by diplomatic means. According to von der Leyen, normalize the situation in the near future will not happen. In this regard, she urged the German government to increase the military budget to upgrade the Bundeswehr." with arms forces of Germany must be able to fulfill their own shoulders within NATO obligations, " the Minister said. With his own hand, Simonak again called for strengthening the presence of CIS in Eastern Europe." No one in Poland does not want a return to the cold war, no one wants confrontation with Russia, But We are confident that there is nothing that provokes As weakness and humility, " said he. At the same time, the Polish Minister called for closer cooperation between the armed forces of both countries." We do not believe in the weakness of the Bundeswehr, " said he.- On the continent today cannot afford ". The results held on Wednesday in the capital FRG meetings von der Leyen, Simonak signed an agreement on bilateral cooperation in the defense sphere. For example, it provides a General background of the military and a stronger link between military units of Germany and Poland. Relations between Russia and the West deteriorated in connection with the situation in Ukraine. This entailed strengthening the military power of the Commonwealth in a number of European countries. As said before, the new NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, the military strengthening of the North Atlantic Commonwealth does not contradict the establishment of a constructive dialogue with Russia, noting that NATO is not seeking confrontation with Moscow, he also said that NATO can place their own troops anywhere. However, in the Ministry of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation believe that as long as NATO actions do not declare their desire to improve Relations with Russia.

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