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Sec-Gen To Speak Following Summit, 'Deployment Of Response Force Possible'

NATO

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg is set to deliver a presser in the coming minutes following today's virtual leaders' summit.

  • Link to livestream: https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/events_67375.htm
  • Teri Schultz at NPR tweets: "Leaders currently meeting virtually are expected to approve the deployment of some units of the NATO Response Force (NRF), the first time these will have been used for collective defense. France is currently leading the force."
  • NATO describes its response force as "a highly ready and technologically advanced multinational force made up of land, air, maritime and Special Operations Forces (SOF) components that the Alliance can deploy quickly, wherever needed."
  • These units would not be deployed to Ukraine, but to eastern European NATO members such as Romania, Poland, or Lithuania.

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