Romania to have a new NATO base

Newsroom 01/09/2014 | 10:22

According to Moscow Times, the five NATO new bases intended to contain the Russians will be located in Poland, Romania, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reported Sunday. These bases will be used for logistics, reconnaissance and mission planning, and will boast permanent multinational staffs of between 300 and 600 employees per base, informs the same source.

“The workforce figures exclude actual troops, whose deployment in Eastern Europe is limited by a 1997 treaty between Russia and NATO known as the Founding Act, the report said. But “small contingents” of NATO troops will be present at the bases at all times, the daily said, citing a classified draft plan of the alliance’s revamp”, notes Moscow Times, mentioning also the fact that this plan is going to be debated on upcoming NATO summit in Wales this week.

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