NATO Foreign Ministers and the US Secretary of State meet this Tuesday in Brussels to reinforce their position of support for Ukraine and evaluate developments in the Middle East.
The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Portugal, João Gomes Cravinho, participates in the meeting. At 1:00 p.m. local time (12:00 p.m. in Lisbon), NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will hold a press conference.
Between today and Wednesday, the diplomatic leaders of the 31 member states of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) will meet at the organization’s headquarters with the purpose of sending a political and diplomatic signal that the Russian invasion of Ukraine It is not forgotten and remains the priority.
The conflict that broke out more than 640 days ago, after a “first rehearsal” in 2014 with the invasion of Crimea, has lost momentum in the media, with media and diplomatic attention focused on the Middle East, particularly the conflict between Israel and the Islamists. Hamas movement and the humanitarian disaster in the Gaza Strip.
But to rule out possible doubts about the continuity of support for Ukraine, and when voices are accumulating against economic and financial aid within the European Union, the heads of diplomacy of the 31 member states want to convey that support for Kiev is unequivocal and is about to last as long as the war continues.
With the war now in an attrition phase and a counteroffensive advancing at a pace that NATO and the Kiev government consider normal, but described as a “stalemate” by the Ukrainian Chief of the General Staff himself, doubts are growing about the longevity from the war. Western support.
However, the situation in the Middle East will not be forgotten and government officials should discuss how to extend the four-day truce, extended on Monday by another two, for the release of people kidnapped by Hamas and Palestinian citizens detained by Israeli forces. .
Source: TSF
