Talks on migration in Brussels
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The Slovak Republic welcomes NATO’s initiative to introduce measures for solving the migration crisis in Europe, said SVK Minister of Defence Martin Glváč after the negotiations held by defence ministers of NATO member states in Brussels.
The ministers talked about strengthening the defence measures as well. One of the options is to deploy permanent NATO units to the countries neighbouring Russia. “Military authorities have been tasked with finding an appropriate solution,” explained Tomáš Valášek, Ambassador of the Slovak Republic to NATO. He emphasized it is not an offensive but rather defensive step.
The defence ministers also discussed the process of meeting the commitments made at the NATO summit in Wales, where Slovakia declared a year-on-year increase of the defence budget by 0.13 per cent of GDP, as well as investments in purchasing Black Hawk helicopters and Spartan transport aircraft.
During the meeting in Brussels, the expert teams of Minister Martin Glváč and his Polish counterpart Antoni Macierewicz held bilateral talks, building up on the negotiations, which took place on 8 February in Krakow. “At the meeting in Poland, we agreed to continue to develop the 8x8 wheeled vehicles project, as well as the NATO Counter Intelligence Centre of Excellence (NATO CI COE), which stagnated after the swearing in of the new Polish government at the end of 2015,” stated Minister Glváč. Considering the project to be of good quality, he also emphasized that the negotiations were successful and both countries expressed their interest to speed up the accreditation process of the centre.
The ministers talked about strengthening the defence measures as well. One of the options is to deploy permanent NATO units to the countries neighbouring Russia. “Military authorities have been tasked with finding an appropriate solution,” explained Tomáš Valášek, Ambassador of the Slovak Republic to NATO. He emphasized it is not an offensive but rather defensive step.
The defence ministers also discussed the process of meeting the commitments made at the NATO summit in Wales, where Slovakia declared a year-on-year increase of the defence budget by 0.13 per cent of GDP, as well as investments in purchasing Black Hawk helicopters and Spartan transport aircraft.
During the meeting in Brussels, the expert teams of Minister Martin Glváč and his Polish counterpart Antoni Macierewicz held bilateral talks, building up on the negotiations, which took place on 8 February in Krakow. “At the meeting in Poland, we agreed to continue to develop the 8x8 wheeled vehicles project, as well as the NATO Counter Intelligence Centre of Excellence (NATO CI COE), which stagnated after the swearing in of the new Polish government at the end of 2015,” stated Minister Glváč. Considering the project to be of good quality, he also emphasized that the negotiations were successful and both countries expressed their interest to speed up the accreditation process of the centre.
