NATO member countries approved a new interim quick-reaction military force on Tuesday to protect themselves from Russia or other threats, the alliance’s chief said.
The initial unit, to be up and running in early 2015, is designed to be supplanted the following year by a permanent force, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said.
The foreign ministers of the 28 NATO member countries also approved maintaining measures through 2015 initiated to reassure NATO countries nearest Russia, Stoltenberg said.
Such measures include stepped-up air patrols over the Baltic Sea and rotating NATO military units in and out of countries like Poland and the Baltic republics. “We …read more
Source: Pakistan Today
