A high stakes defense meeting in Brussels will precede the NATO leaders summit, with ministers set to weigh new measures to reinforce Ukraine and regional deterrence.<\/p>\n
According to the official NATO website, another meeting of defense ministers from alliance member states is planned in Brussels on June 18.<\/p>\n
The session will be chaired by NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, and within it there will be discussions in the Nuclear Planning Group and a meeting of the North Atlantic Council at the level of defense ministers.<\/p>\n
Before the start of the meeting, the ministers will briefly appear for a press briefing, and at 14:00 local Brussels time the Secretary General will answer journalists\u2019 questions during a press conference.<\/p>\n
This meeting serves as the final stage of preparations for the NATO leaders\u2019 summit in Ankara, scheduled for July 7\u20138.<\/p>\n
In the afternoon of June 18 at the alliance\u2019s headquarters, a meeting of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group and a Ramstein Group meeting are also expected.<\/p>\n
Outlook for the meeting and potential consequences<\/p>\n
It is expected that during discussions the emphasis will be on current security issues in Europe and supporting Ukraine in the context of defense modernization and strengthening allies\u2019 defense capabilities.<\/p>\n
The meeting could influence further coordination of actions among Alliance members and the continuation of joint support for Ukraine in the defense sector.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A high stakes defense meeting in Brussels will precede the NATO leaders summit, with ministers set to weigh…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":109910,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[104],"tags":[55552,211,210,55553,55554,55551,38,55555,37127],"class_list":["post-109909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brussels","tag-ankara-summit-preparation","tag-belgium","tag-brussels","tag-defense-ministers-june-18","tag-nato-meeting-brussels","tag-nato-meeting-brussels-defense-ministers-june-18-ramstein-contact-group-ankara-summit-preparation-support-for-ukraine","tag-news","tag-ramstein-contact-group","tag-support-for-ukraine"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116764830915025679","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109909\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}