BERLIN, Jan 13 (Reuters) – Germany, Poland, Britain, France and Italy will implement NATO’s new targets for weapons and troop numbers, to be agreed in the summer, as swiftly as possible, German Defence Minister Pistorius pledged on Monday.
Speaking after a meeting with his four counterparts in the Polish town of Nowa Wies, Pistorius welcomed NATO’s decision to fix the alliance’s new capability targets in June instead of October as originally planned, a move he said was triggered by a German request.
“This buys us a lot of lot of time and we can much earlier kick off the implementation,” Pistorius told reporters.
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