TIRANA, April 10 /ATA/ – By A. Fortuzi/- The civil engineers of Armed Forces on a NATO mission to Latvia have wished in a video message a happy 10th anniversary of our country’s membership into the North Atlantic Alliance.
“Our civil engineers have been serving since June 2017 in a NATO battalion group in Latvia,” Defense Minister Olta Xhaçka says.
She goes on saying: For two years now, the young men and women of Armed Forces contribute to Latvia in the framework of Alliance’s Collective Defence.
“It is my first time to contribute to missions abroad. We clear up the mine fields, Happy tenth anniversary of NATO membership to Albania,” one of the crew members says.
“On these marked days I congratulate the Armed Forces on their contribution to NATO. We are NATO,” another member of AF on mission to Latvia says.
In June 2017, the First Contingent of AF joined NATO allies in Latvia, and a year later, in June 2018 the third contingent of the EOD departed to join NATO’s enhanced Forward Presence (eFP) mission as part of the battalion group led by Canadian forces in Latvia.
Taking part in NATO’s enhanced Forward Presence in Latvia are 21 EOD units. /a.g/sm/
