Lisbon,
21/04 - the President of the Republic, Aníbal Cavaco Silva, today visits the
Portuguese military in mission in the Kosova, the most numerous contingent of
national troops integrated in forces multinationals. After thursday if having
dislocated to the Bósnia-Herzegovina, where she was with the 223 military to the
service of the force of European União (EUFOR), the Head of State, for inerência
Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces, today joins to the 307 elements of the
lodged in barracks Battalion and Mechanized Infantry in Prishtina.
Cavaco
Silva arrives of helicopter the "Jubilee Barracks", British quartering where the
Portuguese military are parked, contactando later with responsible of the
mission of the Joined Nations (UNMIK). In the base, the maximum head of the
Armed Forces attends later the military cerimónias, visits the unit and lunchhes
with the soldiers, a similar agenda to that fulfilled with the military parked
in the Bósnia-Herzegovina.
They
follow the Head of State in the visit the minister of the Defense, Loved Luis,
the Head of the General General staff of the Armed Forces (CEMGFA), admiral
Mendes Cabeçadas, and the Head of the General staff of the Army (CEME), general
Valença Young chicken. To all, Portugal has 887 military in missions in the
Afeganistão, Bósnia-Herzegovina, Kosova, Democratic Republic of the Congo,
Sudan, Timor-East, Iraq, Burundi and Vasco frigate of Gamma, to the service of
the Force of Fast Reaction of NATO.
