NATO considering deploying troops in Slovakia, foreign minister says

NATO is considering deploying some troops in Slovakia along with other countries on its eastern flank in response to the Russian military build-up near Ukraine, Slovak Foreign Minister Ivan Korcok said on Thursday.

Korcok told reporters in a briefing shown on news website aktuality.sk that there had been no decisions taken, the situation was developing and the NATO member country's government had no position on the issue at the moment.