(10 Jul 2024)
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Washington – 9 July 2024
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1. SOUNDBITE (English) Jacek Siewiera, Polish president’s national security adviser:
"In the perception of the Central European countries on the, in the eastern flank of NATO, the military, the political meaning of Ukraine in NATO is absolutely crucial for the entire security of the region, for the entire security of Europe itself. But still, at this summit, we don’t expect the invitation. What we expect is the support for solutions which will make Ukraine stronger and more credible in the position of potential negotiations in the future for any form of reclaiming of the territory. For any form of reestablishing sovereignty and peace within the borders of Ukraine."
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Jacek Siewiera, Polish president’s national security adviser:
"Countries of the Eastern flank have to think about confrontation with Russia in the perspective of three years. It’s not a war in the conventional way only, but the confrontation, understood as a hybrid, diversion and confrontation, understood as a form of asymmetrical activity, including the paramilitary forces."
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Jacek Siewiera, Polish president’s national security adviser:
"Planning for some unexpected events. We have the original plans being prepared for the threat from very well-described directions. So there is also the statement that Russia is the main threat for the NATO alliance. We don’t do it in a contingency planning way. We have original plans, like in the Cold War period. We have also to look for the commitments on the level of Cold War period. So the 3% level, which President (Andrzej) Duda is advocating for, which is the long run goal. It won’t happen from one year to another. And it won’t be the request to put it in final declaration. But it’s still something that we have to discuss among the allies."
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Jacek Siewiera, Polish president’s national security adviser:
"Now we have a quite stable situation on the frontline. We know that Ukraine still is a sovereign country with intention and determination to fight. But still we need to do much more on defense spending. We need to modify our command and control chain in the army, in the NATO, fulfill the original plans in the full spectrum or even above, and engage more allies to understand that without deterrence in the conventional way, by spending the 2% and 3% in the perspective of a decade, for example, the cost of this will be much higher, when it comes to the risk which they will face in their own countries."
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STORYLINE:
A new joint training center that NATO is setting up with Ukraine in Poland ideally will be used to provide military training to potential “millions” of Ukrainian civilians living abroad who would be willing to come home to join the fight against Russia, a senior Polish security official says.
Jacek Siewiera, the head of Poland’s National Security Bureau, spoke to the Associated Press on the sidelines of the NATO summit here.
Siewiera is one of the officials most closely involved in his country’s work supporting Ukraine’s fight and building up its own defenses against neighboring Russia. He spoke of the possible use of the new training center, announced by NATO early this year, as he pointed to Russia’s own success greatly expanding its military ranks even as it prosecutes its war in Ukraine.
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