From: Rick Rozoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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The Times of India
July 24, 2001
Czechs, Slovaks and Poles to set up joint army
PRAGUE: An army brigade made up of Polish, Czech and
Slovak troops will be set up late next year in time
for the first NATO summit on the territory of the
former Soviet bloc, Czech and Polish ministers said on
Monday.
The announcement was made by Czech and Polish Foreign
Ministers Jan Kavan and Wladyslav Bartoszewski and
Defence Ministers Jaroslav Tvrdik and Bronislaw
Komorowski.
The Czech Republic and Poland are now members of NATO.
Slovakia is not a member, and the brigade -- intended
for NATO peace operations -- will be based on Slovak
territory in order to strengthen Slovkia's case for
membership, the ministers said.
Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia have
already called for Slovakia's early entry into NATO.
Slovakia is one of nine central eastern European
countries seeking membership.
The unit is to be set up in time for a NATO gathering
in Prague in November 2002, the first such summit by
the alliance in the capital of a former member of the
Warsaw Pact, which disappeared with the Soviet Union.
Poland and Czechoslovakia were both allies of the
Soviet Union in the Warsaw Pact.
( AP )
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