NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen offered to cut to 7 from 11 bloc command structures, a source in NATO headquarters said on Thursday.
Rasmussen expressed the idea of streamlining NATO's structure in order to cut expenses and make the bloc more effective. In 1995, NATO's 26 command structure staff included 27,000 people. The current 11 structures have 13,000 personnel, NATO spokesman James Appathurai said.
During a meeting at the NATO Defense Ministers session, Rasmussen also suggested cutting to 4 from 14 of the alliance's agencies including among others the NATO Maintenance and Supply Agency, National Reserve Forces Committee, and the NATO Research & Technology Agency.
BRUSSELS, October 14 (RIA Novosti)
