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Poland says ready to implement NATO summit decisions

Xinhua, December 14, 2016 Adjust font size:

NATO, the United States and Poland are ready to implement the decisions of NATO's July summit, Polish Defense Minister Antoni Macierewicz said on Wednesday.

"We are effectively carrying out what we have committed ourselves to do," he said in Zagan, west Poland, according to the Polish Press Agency.

Macierewicz, who is also the government's representative for coordinating the stay of allied troops in Poland, spoke after meeting Gen. Ben Hodges, commander of the U.S. Army in Europe.

According to decisions made by NATO leaders at their Warsaw summit, a U.S. Armored Brigade Combat Team is set to arrive in Poland in January, followed by a multinational battalion-sized battlegroup, composed primarily of U.S. soldiers, in April.

Macierewicz said on Wednesday he was happy that the United States has decided to accelerate the deployment of its troops to Poland, especially the heavy brigade.

Hodges said that a ship with the armored brigade's equipment will arrive in the German port of Bremenhaven on Jan. 6 with equipment immediately transferred to Poland, Romania and the Baltic states, he added. Endit