The North Atlantic Alliance does not plan to deploy nuclear weapons in other countries, NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg said today during a visit to Warsaw. In an interview with the newspaper Fakt on Monday, Polish President Andrzej Duda stated that Poland would be willing to place weapons on its territory.
“If our allies decide to deploy them on our territory as part of the nuclear weapons sharing program in order to strengthen the security of NATO’s eastern flank, we are ready for that,” Duda said in an interview.
In response, Prime Minister Donald Tusk noted that he would like to know all the circumstances that prompted the head of state to make such a statement. Poland belongs to the countries that most support Ukraine in its resistance to the Russian invasion. It borders Russia’s Kaliningrad region and Belarus, which is an ally of Moscow.
The sharing of nuclear weapons is part of NATO’s nuclear deterrence policy, which allows member countries that do not have these weapons in their arsenals to participate in planning their use by the North Atlantic Alliance. The weapons are under the control of the US, in addition to them, Britain and France also own them. They are currently located in Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands, Italy and Turkey.
The DPA agency reminds that the United States government has not yet sent any signal that it would consider deploying nuclear weapons in Eastern Europe. Russia would probably interpret such a move as a direct threat.
