Lebanon costly mission for Baltbat

  • 1998-07-23
TALLINN (BNS) – Sending the joint Baltic peacekeeping battalion on a mission to Lebanon would cost Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania 500 million kroons ($34.5 million) annually, a multi-national military work group said. The military work group presented its conclusions July 21 to a managing group of the Baltbat, which consists of defense and foreign ministry officials of the Baltic states and nations that are providing assistance to the Baltbat project, said Lt. Col. Mart Tiru, head of the international relations department at the Estonian army central staff. "The political decision about the...
 
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