P. Gajdoš: Slovak unit in Latvia is performing its tasks in a responsible manner
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Minister of Defence Peter Gajdoš met with the Slovak soldiers currently deployed with Task Group Štefánik in Latvia. The SVK Armed Forces service personnel have been engaged in the Baltics for the third month already and are now participating in NATO-led Exercise Saber Strike 2017.
On Task Group Štefánik, Head of the MOD said: “Our unit in Latvia is performing its tasks in a responsible manner. Exercise Saber Strike is focused particularly on cooperation among NATO countries in a combat situation. Our soldiers have gained an invaluable amount of experience from their engagement in this international environment also as part of other training activities in the country.”
Maj Vladimír Moško, Commander Task Group Štefánik, added that the soldiers in Latvia are now practising the activities they were trained for on home soil. “Now we have the opportunity to try it out “live”, so to speak, on unfamiliar terrain and with foreign partners,” he said, while further explaining that this training activity differs from a regular exercise in that they navigate their way through terrains outside of a military training area. The training grounds were temporarily leased for this purpose from civilian land owners.
As part of his visit to Latvia, Minister Gajdoš met with his counterpart Raimonds Bergmanis, who highly appreciated the hitherto engagement of the Slovak soldiers in the Baltics and the possibility of deploying SVK Armed Forces service personnel to Latvia as part of NATO's enhanced Forward Presence (eFP). At the same time, Head of the SVK MOD briefed the Latvian Minister on the availability of our training grounds, facilities and Armed Forces Academy for use by the Latvian military. They also discussed the NATO Force Integration Units (NFIUs) established and operating in Slovakia and Latvia.
The Slovak soldiers are currently serving in the Baltics as part of the joint V4 training initiative, which the V4 Group committed itself to during the NATO Summit in Warsaw. Under the V4 initiative arrangements, the first to deploy were Czech soldiers to Lithuania, they are now succeeded by SVK service members serving in Latvia, and from July on Hungarian troops will be deployed to Estonia, whereupon Polish troops will to go to Latvia.
On Task Group Štefánik, Head of the MOD said: “Our unit in Latvia is performing its tasks in a responsible manner. Exercise Saber Strike is focused particularly on cooperation among NATO countries in a combat situation. Our soldiers have gained an invaluable amount of experience from their engagement in this international environment also as part of other training activities in the country.”
Maj Vladimír Moško, Commander Task Group Štefánik, added that the soldiers in Latvia are now practising the activities they were trained for on home soil. “Now we have the opportunity to try it out “live”, so to speak, on unfamiliar terrain and with foreign partners,” he said, while further explaining that this training activity differs from a regular exercise in that they navigate their way through terrains outside of a military training area. The training grounds were temporarily leased for this purpose from civilian land owners.
As part of his visit to Latvia, Minister Gajdoš met with his counterpart Raimonds Bergmanis, who highly appreciated the hitherto engagement of the Slovak soldiers in the Baltics and the possibility of deploying SVK Armed Forces service personnel to Latvia as part of NATO's enhanced Forward Presence (eFP). At the same time, Head of the SVK MOD briefed the Latvian Minister on the availability of our training grounds, facilities and Armed Forces Academy for use by the Latvian military. They also discussed the NATO Force Integration Units (NFIUs) established and operating in Slovakia and Latvia.
The Slovak soldiers are currently serving in the Baltics as part of the joint V4 training initiative, which the V4 Group committed itself to during the NATO Summit in Warsaw. Under the V4 initiative arrangements, the first to deploy were Czech soldiers to Lithuania, they are now succeeded by SVK service members serving in Latvia, and from July on Hungarian troops will be deployed to Estonia, whereupon Polish troops will to go to Latvia.
