Lithuania: NATO

(asked on 19th December 2016) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government when they expect the NATO battalion-sized battlegroup to be established in Lithuania; which NATO members will contribute; how many NATO personnel will be involved; where the battlegroup will be based; and which will be the lead nation.


Answered by
Earl Howe Portrait
Earl Howe
Deputy Leader of the House of Lords
This question was answered on 5th January 2017

The information requested is set out in the table below:

Host Nation

Framework Nation

Based from

Contributing Nations

Number of Personnel

Deployed from

Estonia

UK

Tapa

France, Denmark

Each Enhanced Forward Presence deployment is expected to have around 1,000 personnel, but this will vary over time due to planned rotations of units.

Each Enhanced Forward Presence Battalion will be deployed from early 2017.

Latvia

Canada

Adazi

Albania, Italy, Poland, Slovenia

Lithuania

Germany

Rukla

Belgium, Croatia, France, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway

Poland

US

Several locations including Zagan, Swietoszów, Skwierzyna, and Boleslawiec

Romania, UK

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