NATO foreign ministers meet on Tuesday at the Atlantic Alliance headquarters in Brussels to discuss joint support for Ukraine, the same day that Finland becomes the 31st ally.
More than a year after the start of the invasion of Ukraine by the Russian Federation, the Foreign Ministers of the member states of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) meet at the organization’s headquarters to assess all political, economic-financial and military support. provided to kyiv and define the next installments.
At the second fair, the Secretary-General of NATO, Jens Stoltenberg, announced that as of this third fair, Finland will become the most recent Member State of the Atlantic Alliance, so that the Helsinki Diplomacy Chef will also participate at the meeting.
During the afternoon, the flag-raising ceremony of the 31st member of the Atlantic Alliance will take place.
João Gomes Cravinho will participate in the meeting on behalf of Portugal.
Jens Stoltenberg also announced that the Member States will discuss ways to ensure that the future of Ukraine remains a more autonomous country in Defense, now that there will be a “transition” of the weapons used, sent to, or sent to the West, substituting the time of day Soviet Union.
With the growing uncertainty regarding the reorganization of international geopolitics, the member states will also discuss the main threats to the Atlantic Alliance, namely “Iran, Russia and China,” Stoltenberg said.
Tehran and Beijing are accused by the alliance countries of supporting Moscow in the war and for months Iranian ‘drones’ have been flying over the skies of Ukraine.
There is still no evidence that China is supplying Russia with weapons, but the United States and the United Kingdom have been warning of this possibility for weeks. The meeting between Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin two weeks ago in Moscow accentuated this doubt.
The NATO Secretary General considered this Monday that today would be “a good day” for the alliance, since Finland will “close” one of the flanks of Russia, with whom it shares a long border.
Unlike most countries, Helsinki continued to invest in Defense after the Cold War period (1947 to 1991 and Stoltenberg mentioned this, repeating that the Kremlin “wanted less NATO, but will have just the opposite”.
Still ‘at the door’ of NATO is Sweden, which formally applied for membership at the same time as Finland, a process that is still pending parliamentary ratification by Turkey and Hungary.
Source: TSF
