Latvian MoD Refutes Information on 1,000 Canadian Troops Deployment
16:08 04.07.2016(updated 16:23 04.07.2016)
Canadian soldiers will be stationed in Latvia after the NATO Warsaw summit, Latvian Chief of Defense Raimonds Graube said Monday.
RIGA (Sputnik) – Canada may become one of the countries, whose soldiers will be stationed in Latvia after the NATO summit in Warsaw but this does not mean that there will be 1,000 troops deployed, Latvian Chief of Defense Raimonds Graube said Monday.
"There won't be 1,000 soldiers from the same country on Latvian soil because, not only NATO, but we are also interested in many states participating in the exercises in Latvia," Graube said.
Last week, media reported that Canada was planning to deploy 1,000 soldiers to Latvia.
According to the ministry's spokesman, Kaspars Galkins, there is still no official information available that Canada will send their troops to Latvia. All the details about which countries will form the NATO battalion to be deployed in Latvia is expected to be agreed at the upcoming Warsaw summit, due to take place on July 8-9.
Following the NATO defense ministers' summit held last month, Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg confirmed that the Alliance had agreed to deploy four multinational battalions to Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Poland. The ministers also agreed on measures to enhance defense and deterrence in the Black Sea region.
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