President Bronislaw Komorowski has criticized government plans to disperse various parts of Poland’s armed forces away from Warsaw.

Opening the university year at the National Defence Academy, President Bronisław Komorowski criticised Defence Minister Bogdan Klich’s idea to transfer the headquarters of the armed forces out of capital city.

Minister Klich intends to move the command of the Land Forces to Wrocław and the Air Force to Poznań, but the plans have been put on hold for financial reasons.

President Komorowski said that the move was against recent international trends and that Poland’s armed forces needed not dislocation but central integration of systems of command.

“The tendency is towards integrated, joint command. Dispersing them all over Poland, in my belief, would cross out for many years the sense of implementing this idea in this country”, Komorowski said.

President Komorowski also spoke out in favour of a constant source of funds for defence purposes and the modernisation of armed forces. (ek)