NATO

Mr. José Manuel Albares attends the meeting of foreign ministers in Oslo

The Minister for Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation believes that this ministerial meeting comes at a particularly crucial time for Euro-Atlantic security

June 1, 2023

In the opinion of José Manuel Albares, the allies have to continue advancing in defining both the response and the threats coming from the Southern Flank, as was reflected in the Strategic Concept approved at the Madrid Summit last June. Meanwhile, the minister believes that NATO must send Ukraine a "strong political message that we are with it as long as it is necessary", while we move forward on what was already conveyed to it at the Bucharest Summit.

On the other hand, José Manuel Albares trusts that the next summit in Vilnius, on 11 and 12 July, "will be the definitive moment in which Sweden can finally, as Spain wishes, be part of the family of democracies that are NATO".