Poland to head future Visegrad4 battle group

Poland will head a battle group, now being set up by the four Visegrad Group countries, Poland's Defence Minister Bogdan Klich told PAP on Thursday. The decision was made during a meeting of defence ministers of the group -- the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia -- in Slovakia's Levoca on Thursday. "We have decided that the group is to be operational and on standby in the first half of 2016," said Klich. The meeting was attended by the defence minister of Ukraine.