Minister Gajdoš and CHOD Zmeko meet with NSHQ Commander Vice Admiral C. J. Kilrain
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- Date: 27.07.2018
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Minister of Defence Peter Gajdoš and Chief of Defence Lt Gen Daniel Zmeko today (27 July 2018) welcomed Commander of the NATO Special Operations Headquarters (NSHQ) Vice Admiral Colin J. Kilrain to the MOD. The July NATO Brussels Summit, Slovakiaʼs fulfilment of commitments, and its contributions to international crisis management operations were the main topics of the meeting.
On our defence pledges made at the NATO Brussels Summit, SVK Minister of Defence Peter Gajdoš said: “At the NATO summit our delegation declared both an increase in troop levels in Afghanistan under the valid mandate and a continuation in performing tasks in Latvia. Weʼre also ready to join NATOʼs new training mission in Iraq, because we want to make it clear that we want to participate actively in improving the security situation.”
At the joint meeting, Vice Admiral Kilrain highly commended the readiness of the Slovak Special Operations Forces (SOF) personnel on a tour of the Resolute Support Mission (RSM), Afghanistan and those posted to the NSHQ, Mons, Belgium.
Minister Gajdoš updated Vice Admiral Kilrain on the Slovak Armed Forcesʼ modernization projects aligned to the 2030 Long-Term Defence Development Plan. He illustrated this point by reference to 2 C-27J Spartan airlifters and 4 UH-60M Black Hawk utility helicopters that have recently been brought into service. He reminded that the Slovak Cabinet has already given its consent to the purchases of 14 F-16 Block 70/72 multi-role fighter jets, the replacement of 3D surveillance medium-, short- and very short-range radars, and the modernization of the 8x8 and 4x4x platforms has also been underway.
On our defence pledges made at the NATO Brussels Summit, SVK Minister of Defence Peter Gajdoš said: “At the NATO summit our delegation declared both an increase in troop levels in Afghanistan under the valid mandate and a continuation in performing tasks in Latvia. Weʼre also ready to join NATOʼs new training mission in Iraq, because we want to make it clear that we want to participate actively in improving the security situation.”
At the joint meeting, Vice Admiral Kilrain highly commended the readiness of the Slovak Special Operations Forces (SOF) personnel on a tour of the Resolute Support Mission (RSM), Afghanistan and those posted to the NSHQ, Mons, Belgium.
Minister Gajdoš updated Vice Admiral Kilrain on the Slovak Armed Forcesʼ modernization projects aligned to the 2030 Long-Term Defence Development Plan. He illustrated this point by reference to 2 C-27J Spartan airlifters and 4 UH-60M Black Hawk utility helicopters that have recently been brought into service. He reminded that the Slovak Cabinet has already given its consent to the purchases of 14 F-16 Block 70/72 multi-role fighter jets, the replacement of 3D surveillance medium-, short- and very short-range radars, and the modernization of the 8x8 and 4x4x platforms has also been underway.
