Nato chief Stoltenberg need to bolstering European defense against IS and Russia

Source : http://interfax.ru

Moscow. June 18. INTERFAX.RU - The Alliance has to strengthen the security of its European partners in connection with the actions of the "Islamic State" (IS) and the policy of Russia, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg.

"NATO is a new step to strengthen security, which sparked a wave of violence, unrest and instability in the south - LIH actions in Iraq, Syria and North Africa. It is also due to increasingly aggressive behavior of Russia, which uses the power", - said Stoltenberg reporters in Poland , where he arrived to oversee the exercise of NATO Response Force.

"Therefore, we have to give the answer. We are responsible, and conduct the most extensive strengthening our collective security after the end of" Cold War. "The advanced power (rapid reaction force - IF) are a key element of the gain is great that you can monitor their activities, and that the teachings are in Poland "- said the secretary general.

The exercise involved more than 2 thousand. Soldiers from Belgium, the Czech Republic and Germany. Hungary, Latvia, the Netherlands, Norway. Poland and the United States.

On the eve of Commander of NATO forces in Europe, General Philip Breedlove said that Russia's actions can not be called the behavior of responsible nuclear powers. So he commented on the statement of Russian President Vladimir Putin that this year the nuclear forces of the Russian Federation will join the 40 intercontinental ballistic missiles.

Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin, later wrote in his Twitter account that plans to modernize Russia's nuclear potential is not contrary to the country's international obligations.