Brussels: Europe and the Arabs
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg will visit Poland today, Tuesday, April 23. He will meet with the Prime Minister of Poland, Mr. Donald Tusk, and the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Mr. Rishi Sunak, in Warsaw. The Secretary-General will also meet with British military forces. According to a statement issued by NATO headquarters in Brussels
In the same regard, the German government announced that Chancellor Olaf Scholz will meet British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak tomorrow, Wednesday.
A government spokesman said that the two sides will discuss bilateral relations and international policy issues of common interest, most notably the Russian war on Ukraine, and the situation in the Middle East.
For her part, the official spokeswoman for the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, warned that American nuclear weapons likely to be deployed on Polish territory would immediately join the list of legitimate Russian targets for destruction in the event of a direct military conflict with NATO.
Zakharova said - in a press statement yesterday, Monday, commenting on Poland’s announcement of its readiness to deploy American nuclear weapons on its territory -: “Such provocative statements by the Polish leadership are not new.”
She added: “The Polish authorities have not hidden their ambitions for a long time to cling more tightly to the American nuclear weapons deployed in Europe, and they are actively including them in their strongly anti-Russian policy.” She stressed that these weapons will be on the list of legitimate Russian targets for destruction in the event of a direct military conflict with Russia. NATO
After Russia confirmed that it would take the necessary measures to ensure its "security" if Warsaw deployed nuclear weapons on its territory, Poland's Foreign Minister said on Tuesday that his country had not taken any decision about deploying nuclear weapons on its territory.
Radoslaw Sikorski told Al-Arabiya Al-Hadath that there is only an internal discussion about this.
On Monday, Polish President Andrzej Duda confirmed his country's "readiness", a member of NATO, to deploy nuclear weapons on its territory if NATO decided to strengthen its eastern front in the face of Russia's deployment of new weapons in Belarus and the Kaliningrad enclave.
"If our allies decide to deploy nuclear weapons within the framework of nuclear sharing on our territory with the aim of strengthening NATO's eastern front, we are ready to do so," Duda told Fact newspaper.
In conjunction with this, the Polish Ministry of Defense announced the killing of a Spanish soldier during the NATO Saber Strike maneuvers with live ammunition on its territory.
The ministry said the incident occurred at the Bemovo-Pisca training ground during tactical live-fire training. She added that the dead soldier was 43 years old, and had served in the Spanish army since 2004. 300 Spanish soldiers are participating in NATO exercises in Poland this year.