{"id":159,"date":"2014-12-23T07:35:08","date_gmt":"2014-12-23T07:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/box5917.temp.domains\/~iriacom\/\/news\/?p=159"},"modified":"2015-01-12T15:32:59","modified_gmt":"2015-01-12T15:32:59","slug":"nato-expansion-plan-to-cost-several-hundred-million-euros-general-palomeros","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/nato-expansion-plan-to-cost-several-hundred-million-euros-general-palomeros\/","title":{"rendered":"NATO expansion plan to cost “several hundred million euros”: General Palomeros"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A NATO general says the military alliance\u2019s plan to form high-readiness military units will cost “several hundred million euros” a year.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Speaking ahead of this week’s NATO summit in Wales, General Jean-Paul Palomeros, who is responsible for modernizing NATO, said that the Readiness Action Plan will lead to “a credible defense” to confront present and potential threats worldwide.<\/p>\n

“These are not colossal figures compared to total budgets in alliance members,” he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The NATO member states are to vote on the plan at the summit.<\/p>\n

“Once NATO decides it wants these capabilities, it has to have them for the very long term,” Palomeros added.<\/p>\n

The recent clashes in Ukraine, Iraq, and Syria have reportedly provoked NATO officials to strengthen their forces and facilities.<\/p>\n

Russia also warned that it will adjust its military doctrine in response to NATO\u2019s plans to boost its presence in Eastern Europe.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday, the deputy secretary of Russia\u2019s National Security Council, Mikhail Popov, accused the Western military alliance of ratcheting up tensions by boosting its military presence near Russia’s borders.<\/p>\n

His remarks came after NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said on Monday that\u00a0the summit in Wales would specially boost NATO\u2019s rapid response force, creating a spearhead of \u201cseveral thousand troops\u201d that could be sent within \u201cvery few days\u201d to meet any new threat.<\/p>\n

Since Kiev launched military operations to silence the pro-Russia protesters in mid-April, Ukraine\u2019s mainly Russian-speaking regions in the country\u2019s east have witnessed deadly clashes between pro-Moscow forces and the Ukrainian army.<\/p>\n

Kiev and its Western allies accuse Russia of fueling the crisis in eastern Ukraine, but Moscow has repeatedly denied the allegations.<\/p>\n

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