Poland to lobby NATO for more forces - Reuters

On Thursday, Poland and the Baltic states said they were seeking permanent NATO deployments on their soil. A Polish internal document suggested the matter may be raised at the Warsaw NATO summit next year, Reuters agency informed. Reuters saw a planning paper agreed on by the National Security Bureau, which contains Polish objectives for the NATO summit in Warsaw in 2016, referring to "seeking NATO's permanent regional presence," and added in parentheses "military bases with heavy equipment". Head of the National Security Bureau Stanisław Koziej told Reuters that the Polish position "could change before the summit, for example, if Russia were to comply with the Minsk peace agreement for Eastern Ukraine," but in his opinion there is no chance this agreement will be fulfilled." Additionally, Reuters revealed that the Baltic states are preparing a joint approach to NATO command asking for permanent stationing of a brigade.