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Poland and NATO Increase Missile Defense Cooperation

Friday, February 6th, 2015

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The Polish Ministry of National Defence and the NATO Communications and Information (NCI) Agency signed an agreement intensifying cooperation between the ministry and the Agency’s Ballistic Missile Defence (BMD) Programme Office and Services, the NCI Agency said on Feb. 5.This agreement was signed by Robert Kupiecki, Poland’s Undersecretary of State, and Koen Gijsbers, NCI Agency General Manager, at the margins of the NATO Ministers of Defence meeting in Brussels on Feb. 5.The agreement is meant to support NATO BMD development.…

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