US Has ‘No Obligation to Pay for European Security’ Under Trump
SputnikNews.com
30.01.2017
Commenting on the inauguration of a new NATO Force Integration Unit (NFIU) in Slovakia on Tuesday, a commentator for the country’s major center-left newspaper Pravda Martin Krno explained to Sputnik why he thinks that the US is unlikely to recall its units from Europe even though President Trump has called NATO “obsolete.”
On Tuesday, January 24, the Alliance “marked the inauguration of a new NATO Force Integration Unit (NFIU) in Slovakia,” according to a statement on NATO’s website.
“This multinational unit is one of eight small headquarters in the eastern part of the Alliance and will play a vital role in military planning, exercises and facilitating reinforcements,” the statement says.
In a keynote speech, NATO’s Assistant Secretary General for Public Diplomacy Tacan Ildem stressed that these eight NFIUs symbolize NATO’s solidarity and commitment to collective defense, it adds.
Commenting on the inauguration of a new NATO unit, Slovak commentator for the country’s major center-left newspaper Pravda Martin Krno, the chairman of the Regional Committee of the Slovak Association of Anti-fascist Fighters explained to Sputnik Czech that it is housed in the barracks of the Bratislava borough of Vajnory. It is staffed by 21 Slovakian personnel along with 20 international personnel from the member states under the agreement between Slovakia and NATO.
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