NATO Alliance Not Expected To Establish Permanent Bases In Poland

Despite a lobbying campaign by Warsaw, NATO is not going to discuss the establishment of permanent military bases in Poland at the next summit, says a top U.S. diplomat cited by the International Business Times.

"At the NATO summit in Warsaw in July next year, the adoption of resolutions to place permanent NATO bases in Poland will not take place," John Heffern, the U.S. deputy assistant secretary of state for Europe and Eurasia, told Polish newspaper Rzecpspolita.

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