Parliament endorses deployment

The members of the National Council of the Slovak Republic have endorsed the deployment of 152 service personnel on a training mission to Latvia. Slovakia will thus deliver on its commitment made at the NATO Summit in Warsaw last year. Slovak troops will be engaged in the Baltics in the second quarter of 2017 as part of the Visegrad Group's joint training mission. They will join the measures to strengthen the Alliance's collective defence on NATO's eastern borders alongside the other Allied forces who have already been or are soon to be active in the region. Given that the training will be directed towards developing the interoperability of Allied armed forces, Slovak service personnel will put their capabilities to the test as well. Slovak troops will be engaged in the Baltics from April through June 2017. The Czech Republic has already sent its troops to the Baltics for the first quarter of the year. Hungary and Poland will deploy their units in the third and fourth quarters of 2017, respectively.