Chief of the General Staff attends NATO Military Committee meeting

The Conference discussed the developments in four critical areas (Russia and Ukraine, Africa and Sahel, the Middle East and North Africa, and Asia and the Pacific).
The Chairman of the NATO Military Committee, General Knud Bartels emphasised the nations and their respective territories were faced with the challenge of the  increasing  instability and trans-national and multi-dimensional theats. NATO’s main responsibility is to protect and defend the territories of the 28 member nations against any strategic and/or hybrid threat. At the recently held Wales Summit the Allies  greed on a Readiness Action Plan that will strengthen NATO’s collective defence and ensure the Alliance is ready to respond to any future security challenge,  as the clear commitment, demonstrating the Alliance’s resoluteness, solidarity and cohesion.
Military-wise,  NATO is to guide and implement the „right forces, the right equipment in the right place, at the right time“ in the form of Very High Readiness Joint Task Force (VJTF), deployable at short notice – a sustainable, visible, agile and credible force. It is to be built based on a thorough study based on the guidelines issued at the Conference. In addition, a readiness upgrade of the existing force, such as the NATO Response Force, will be considered too. 
The participants also paid tribute to the military and civilian personnel serving with ISAF and the Afghan National Security Forces over the past thirteen years. ISAF is to be followed by the „Resolute Support“ Mission – a non-combat NATO Mission launched to continue advising and mentoring of the Afghanistan National Security Force.
The new Chairmen of the NATO Military Committee, selected in the Conference, is General Petr Pavel, the Chief of the Joint Staffs of the Czech Army, who is to assume the duty in June 2015.