The leaders of the 30 NATO member states meet in Madrid

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28 June 2022 / 09:45

The leaders of the 30 NATO member states meet in Madrid

The leaders of NATO's 30 member states are meeting in Madrid on Tuesday for talks on what many expect to be the most important summit of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation in decades, Digi24 reports.

More than four months after Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine, NATO is preparing to demonstrate its unity against Russian aggression. Twenty-five years after the previous summit in the Spanish capital, where the Alliance had only 16 member states, the North Atlantic Alliance will adopt its next Strategic Concept, a document that will outweigh the joint declaration of the summit.

The Alliance is also expected to take further steps to increase deterrence against Russia. The Alliance will define its objectives and priorities for the next decade, adopting and adapting the tools to achieve them. The cornerstone of NATO remains the transatlantic link and the guarantees offered by Article 5 of the Washington Treaty.

Leaders attending the Madrid summit are expected to unveil a "transformative" approach to their unseen security and defence strategy since the end of the Cold War, according to its secretary general Jens Stoltenberg. The summit will focus on strengthening NATO's military support in Eastern Europe, reaffirming support for Ukraine and China's growing global influence.

But there will be difficult issues to address, especially Turkey's opposition to Finland and Sweden's demands to join the alliance and the need to balance defence spending with the nation's domestic budgets amid rising inflation and fears of recession, according to TIME.

The North Atlantic Alliance summit is the third summit of the Organisation this year, but the first is regular, the first two, on February 25 and March 24, are extraordinary, being convened in the context of Russia's military invasion of Ukraine.

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