Norway, one of the few North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) countries that share a land border with Russia, must further strengthen its military preparedness, the government announced on Monday.
The country can expand its “presence and patrols around critical infrastructure in the North Sea” and “critical infrastructure on land,” Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre said.
Announcing the new measures at a press conference in Oslo, he said the actions are aimed at ensuring that Norway is “well prepared and able to act” as the country faces its “most serious security policy situation that we are experiencing in several countries.” decades”.
He also pointed out that the decision was made based on the advice of the country’s defense chief. “The war in Ukraine makes it necessary for all NATO countries to be more vigilant,” he stressed.
Støre emphasized that “nothing has happened in the last 24 hours or the last few days to make us step it up now. It is the developments over time that make us take this step”.
Speaking alongside the prime minister, Norwegian Defense Chief Eirik Kristoffersen estimated that the preparation should last at least a year. “The military’s most important task is to preserve our peace and security and prevent conflict,” Kristoffersen said.
The army general explained that “to solve this task, we must adapt our activity to the situation in which we find ourselves at a given moment”, and the country’s military would begin to “reprioritize parts of our planned activities to strengthen our readiness”.
Source: CNN Brasil
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