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Secretary General wraps up meeting of Foreign Ministers: “Ukraine is closer to NATO than ever before”
29 Nov. 2023

Secretary General wraps up meeting of Foreign Ministers: “Ukraine is closer to NATO than ever before”

NATO Foreign Ministers concluded two days of meetings in Brussels on Wednesday (29 November 2023), addressing support for Ukraine, preparations for the Washington Summit and pressing security challenges, including in the Western Balkans and NATO’s southern neighbourhood.

Statement by the NATO-Ukraine Council at the level of Foreign Ministers

Statement by the NATO-Ukraine Council at the level of Foreign Ministers

Five Allies deploy jets to NATO’s eastern flank for air policing

Five Allies deploy jets to NATO’s eastern flank for air policing

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    • NATO’s China and Indo-Pacific conundrum 10 Nov. 2023 The war in Ukraine has underscored the growing geopolitical interdependence between the Euro-Atlantic and Indo-Pacific regions. For one, China has helped Russia cushion Western economic and political pressure.
    • NATO’s China and Indo-Pacific conundrum 22 Nov. 2023 The war in Ukraine has underscored the growing geopolitical interdependence between the Euro-Atlantic and Indo-Pacific regions. For one, China has helped Russia cushion Western economic and political pressure. Indeed, Beijing’s image in Europe (which has been on a downward trajectory for years) has tanked as the perception of tacit support for Moscow’s assault on the Euro-Atlantic security order and global norms has spread. Conversely, diplomatic, economic and military support from Indo-Pacific partners like Australia, Japan, New Zealand and the Republic of Korea has helped to strengthen Ukraine’s resilience and uphold global norms.
    • Turning standard ammunition into sharable ammunition 10 Nov. 2023 NATO’s multinational battlegroups need help transitioning verified technical interchangeability into national policies that allow them to operate, train, and maintain readiness from a common ammunition stockpile that is legally permitted and safe to use. In February and March of this year, the NATO Standardization Office coordinated with a team from the US Army War College (USAWC) to conduct a ground-level survey within three of NATO’s eight multinational battlegroups.
    • Protecting our critical satellite infrastructure: the importance of space-based infrastructure to humanity, and its status within NATO 24 Oct. 2023 Amongst the many vital strategic and security priorities on the agenda at the NATO summit in Vilnius, it was refreshing to see important discussions about space security taking place. Space has long been an important domain for military operations and has been used actively by NATO for its own satellite communications (SATCOM) programme for almost two decades. However, it was not until 2019 that NATO Allies formally recognised space as an operational domain, opening the door to a greater focus on how space can play a pivotal role in our defence.
    • The urgent imperative to maintain NATO’s nuclear deterrence 29 Sep. 2023 The dismal performance of Russia’s conventional forces in the early days of the war in Ukraine risks convincing some in NATO that the future Russian threat to the Alliance can be deterred primarily via NATO’s conventional superiority, and that enhancing deterrence of Russian nuclear use in a future conflict is therefore no longer a high priority. This is a dangerous fallacy. It fails to take into account the relevant lessons learned from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and the fundamental change in the future security environment in which NATO will have to deter or defeat Russian aggression and escalation.

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