Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia will step up military cooperation and increase funding to NATO's air mission in the Baltic region in response to a surge in sorties along their borders by Russian planes, their defence ministers said on Dec. 12.
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NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg (2R) and Estonian Prime Minister Taavi Roivas (R) visit the Amari air base that hosts the defence alliance's air policy mission over the Baltic states in Amari, Estonia on Nov. 20, 2014.
