MOD STATEMENT ON NATO DISCUSSIONS IN MEDIA SPOTLIGHT
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The growing tensions over the conflict between Ukraine and the Russian Federation require that we prepare responsibly for scenarios on all potential developments. This is true both at national level (by hosting special briefings for the highest constitutional representatives, meetings of the Security Council and sessions of the Parliamentary committees) and at NATO level.
As standard practice in the event of crisis, NATO considers all possible alternatives to situational developments. Military experts have put forward a proposal for allied reinforcements to be deployed alongside NATO's eastern border, which follows on from the experience NATO has gained from its presence in the Baltics and Poland in response to the illegal annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation and to the armed conflict that has been underway in Ukraine's Donbas and Luhansk and which is only one of the potential alternatives to further developments.
As tensions rise, the aim of military experts is to process a complete list of options that are available to NATO as a defensive alliance. NATO wants and must be ready for all possible scenarios including the worst case scenarios, although we all wish the situation calms down. And this is exactly how the strongest defensive alliance in history should act.
Based on the military scenarios and recommendations, specialist and political discussions will now get underway to determine which of the proposed measures are most appropriate in this situation and with which all NATO Member States identify themselves.
As a rule, it applies that not NATO but Slovak constitutional bodies will decide on the presence of foreign armed forces in Slovak territory. Slovakia's highest constitutional representatives as much as Cabinet members continue to honestly follow the security situation in every detail and to evaluate the measures that need to be adopted for delivering the security of the Slovak Republic.
No decision has been made in relation to the deployment of Allied troops to Slovakia. If necessary, decisions will be taken by respective constitutional bodies of the Slovak Republic, depending, as a priority, on how the situation develops.
As standard practice in the event of crisis, NATO considers all possible alternatives to situational developments. Military experts have put forward a proposal for allied reinforcements to be deployed alongside NATO's eastern border, which follows on from the experience NATO has gained from its presence in the Baltics and Poland in response to the illegal annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation and to the armed conflict that has been underway in Ukraine's Donbas and Luhansk and which is only one of the potential alternatives to further developments.
As tensions rise, the aim of military experts is to process a complete list of options that are available to NATO as a defensive alliance. NATO wants and must be ready for all possible scenarios including the worst case scenarios, although we all wish the situation calms down. And this is exactly how the strongest defensive alliance in history should act.
Based on the military scenarios and recommendations, specialist and political discussions will now get underway to determine which of the proposed measures are most appropriate in this situation and with which all NATO Member States identify themselves.
As a rule, it applies that not NATO but Slovak constitutional bodies will decide on the presence of foreign armed forces in Slovak territory. Slovakia's highest constitutional representatives as much as Cabinet members continue to honestly follow the security situation in every detail and to evaluate the measures that need to be adopted for delivering the security of the Slovak Republic.
No decision has been made in relation to the deployment of Allied troops to Slovakia. If necessary, decisions will be taken by respective constitutional bodies of the Slovak Republic, depending, as a priority, on how the situation develops.
