Hungarian soldiers will also be deployed to the Baltic: “A political agreement has been reached concerning the fact that the countries of the Visegrád Group will each be sending a contingent of soldiers to the Baltic in three-month shifts beginning in 2017 within the framework of measures aimed at increasing NATOs presence in the region”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó told Hungarian news agency MTI by telephone on Friday from Jūrmala, Latvia, where he is attending a summit of foreign ministers from the Visegrád Group (V4), Baltic and Scandinavian countries.
The Minister also told the press that this would mean 150 soldiers at a time from each country, including Hungary, would be stationed in the Baltic region.
“This one-year military presence on the part of the V4 countries clearly indicates our solidarity with the countries of the Baltic”, Mr. Szijjártó emphasised, adding that the chiefs of staff of the countries involved would begin planning the details after which the plan would be put before the their Ministers of Defence and all outstanding issues must be clarified prior to the NATO summit in Warsaw this summer.
Photo: Máté Paczolay/Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade
Included on the agenda of Friday’s meeting of V4, Baltic and Scandinavian foreign ministers was security cooperation within NATO, cooperation with Russia and the European Union’s Eastern Partnership programme, Mr. Szijjártó reported. (Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade/MTI)
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