BERLIN (Reuters) - NATO defense
ministers will discuss temporarily reinforcing their forces in Poland
when they meet in Brussels this week, a spokesman for the German defense
ministry said on Sunday.
It
has not been decided whether the 28-member alliance will actually
reinforce its Multinational Corps Northeast in Szczecin, the spokesman
added.
In April Poland's
defense minister said Russia's military intervention in Ukraine's Crimea
peninsula made it vital that NATO station significant numbers of troops
in eastern Europe and ignore any objections Russia might have.
Russia says deployment of significant NATO forces close to Russia would
violate the 1997 Founding Act, an agreement between Moscow and the
alliance.
Eastern European
states nervous about Russia after it annexed Ukraine's Crimea region and
massed 40,000 troops on Ukraine's borders. NATO is trying to provide
reassurance with temporary deployments of military forces and exercises.
(Reporting by Sabine Siebold; additional reporting by Adrian Croft in
Brussels; Writing by Michelle Martin; Editing by Andrew Roche)
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