11 years with NATO
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- Date: 29.03.2015
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The Slovak Republic is commemorating the 11th anniversary of its membership in the North Atlantic Alliance. Our security was reinforced by Slovakia’s entry into this elite community, and today our country is enjoying its highest security guarantees.
“Security generates the best preconditions for fostering investment and greater prosperity of the entire society,” emphasized SVK Minister of Defence Martin Glváč. He went on to remind that our entry into NATO was instrumental in overhauling the nature of the SVK Armed Forces.
“Today we have fully professional Armed Forces that are firmly established among the armed components of our country. Our troops regularly deliver assistance to Slovak citizens as part of domestic crisis management operations and their engagement under the international community is of equal significance,” said the head of the SVK MOD.
Through their active role in international crisis management operations, our soldiers gain the necessary areas of expertise towards improving the Armed Forces as a whole. “Thousands of Slovak servicemen and women have so far rotated on operations abroad and our foreign partners give high rating to their work,” summarized the Minister of Defence.
Even in the words of Chief of the SVK Armed Forces General Staff Lt Gen Milan Maxim, today our Armed Forces are a respected contributor to the Allies’ collective efforts in international crisis management operations. “However, this is not to say that the Slovak Republic no longer needs to allocate funds on defence. The current security developments in the vicinity of our borders increasingly convince us that defence spending is an inevitable condition for our national and regional stability and prosperity,” he stressed.
The Slovak Republic joined the North Atlantic Alliance on 29 March 2004, along with Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania and Slovenia.
“Security generates the best preconditions for fostering investment and greater prosperity of the entire society,” emphasized SVK Minister of Defence Martin Glváč. He went on to remind that our entry into NATO was instrumental in overhauling the nature of the SVK Armed Forces.
“Today we have fully professional Armed Forces that are firmly established among the armed components of our country. Our troops regularly deliver assistance to Slovak citizens as part of domestic crisis management operations and their engagement under the international community is of equal significance,” said the head of the SVK MOD.
Through their active role in international crisis management operations, our soldiers gain the necessary areas of expertise towards improving the Armed Forces as a whole. “Thousands of Slovak servicemen and women have so far rotated on operations abroad and our foreign partners give high rating to their work,” summarized the Minister of Defence.
Even in the words of Chief of the SVK Armed Forces General Staff Lt Gen Milan Maxim, today our Armed Forces are a respected contributor to the Allies’ collective efforts in international crisis management operations. “However, this is not to say that the Slovak Republic no longer needs to allocate funds on defence. The current security developments in the vicinity of our borders increasingly convince us that defence spending is an inevitable condition for our national and regional stability and prosperity,” he stressed.
The Slovak Republic joined the North Atlantic Alliance on 29 March 2004, along with Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania and Slovenia.
