Minister of National Defence, Vasile Dincu, participates in the NATO Defence Ministers Meeting chaired by the North Atlantic Alliance Secretary General, Jens Stoltenberg, and conducted at Brussels, over 15-16 June.

During the ministerial, the talks will mainly focus on the establishment of the decision-making package and the strategic perspectives that will substantiate the Madrid NATO Summit from June, on the defence component.

The Allied defence ministers will discuss over a working dinner with their consecrated partner states, Finland and Sweden, as well as with the Eastern neighborhood countries, Georgia and Ukraine, about the security situation generated by the Russian Federation's brutal invasion of Ukraine and ways of strengthening the NATO-UE partnership.The working dinner will also be attended by the High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Josep Borrell.

During the first session of the North-Atlantic Council, the officials will discuss the medium and long-term adaptation of the defence and deterrence posture, while the second working session will be dedicated to the defence resource allocation and common funding.

NATO Defence Ministers Meeting is part of the wide adaptation process of the Alliance in the context of the deterioration of the regional, European and Euro-Atlantic security environment following Russian Federation's invasion of Ukraine.

As part of the ministerial, the minister of national defence will participate in a new reunion of the Ukraine Defense Consultative Group established at the initiative of the United States of America and chaired by the US Secretary of Defence, Lloyd J Austin.

The Press Office