NATO Chief Jens Stoltenberg Unveils Biggest Build-Up Since Cold War
SputnikNews.com
18.06.2015
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has said the alliance was increasing its pressure on Russia by massively boosting the deployment of troops and military assets in Eastern Europe and the Mediterranean.
In a huge show of strength, NATO — which has opened its doors to the former Warsaw Pact states of the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Albania, Croatia since 1999 — is continuing to build up its capabilities in the Baltic States, Eastern Europe and the Mediterranean.
“NATO is facing a new security environment, both caused by violence, turmoil, instability in the south — ISIL in Iraq, Syria, North Africa — but also caused by the behaviour of a more assertive Russia, which has used force to change borders, to annex Crimea and to destabilize eastern Ukraine,” Stoltenberg told reporters.
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