Busy agenda for April NATO Foreign Ministerial
The 28 NATO Foreign Ministers will hold their regular spring meeting on Tuesday (23 April 2013) at NATO Headquarters in Brussels.
The ministerial will start with a North Atlantic Council meeting, which will examine developments in the Middle East and North Africa, and take stock of the Alliance’s Patriot deployment in Turkey.
At a meeting of the NATO-Russia Council (NRC), which will include the participation of Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, ministers are expected to discuss closer practical cooperation, as well as global security issues of relevance to the NRC, including Afghanistan and North Korea.
In the afternoon, NATO ministers will meet with their counterparts from the 22 non-NATO countries which contribute to the ISAF mission in Afghanistan. The Afghan Foreign Minister Zalmai Rassoul, the European Union’s High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Catherine Ashton and the UN Secretary General’s Special representative Jan Kubis have also been invited to attend this session.