Poland has asked the North Atlantic Alliance to place American nuclear weapons on its territory.
The corresponding statement was made by the head of the Polish government, Mateusz Morawiecki, on June 30 at a press conference after the European Union summit in Brussels.
This is reported by .
What Morawiecki said
According to the Polish Prime Minister, due to the fact that Russia plans to deploy tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus, Poland wants to become a member of the NATO program on the joint use of nuclear weapons.
We appeal to all of NATO to participate in the Nuclear Sharing programMorawiecki said.
This program allows the United States to transfer nuclear weapons to NATO countries if necessary.
The head of the Polish government emphasized that nuclear weapons need to be deployed on Polish territory as soon as possible.
We declare our desire for rapid action in this area, – he said.
Let us recall that at the beginning of the year, Moscow and Minsk agreed on the transfer of tactical nuclear weapons to Belarus.
On June 16, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the delivery of the first nuclear warheads to Belarus.
On June 23, President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko announced that a significant part of the tactical nuclear weapons had already arrived in the country.
