Senior NATO role for Pole
PR dla Zagranicy
Paweł Kononczuk
09.03.2016 11:36
A Pole has been chosen as the next head of NATO’s Resource Policy and Planning Board, an influential body that oversees the military alliance’s budget.
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Colonel Marek Powalski will take up his new post on 1 September this year. He will be the first officer from the Central and Eastern European countries that joined NATO after the collapse of communism to assume the position. Poland joined the military alliance in 1999.
The Resource Policy and Planning Board (RPPB) is the senior advisory body to the North Atlantic Council on the management of all NATO resources. It is responsible for managing NATO’s civil and military budgets. (pk)
Source: IAR/Polskie Radio