NATO – Bucharest will host on Tuesday and Wednesday a meeting of NATO foreign ministers. Attending will also be the foreign ministers of Georgia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Ukraine and, for the first time, the Republic of Moldova. The war in Ukraine will be one of the main topics of the meeting. The conference will be co-chaired by the Romanian foreign minister, Bogdan Aurescu, and NATO’s secretary general Jens Stoltenberg. This is the first event of this kind organised in Romania since the country joined the Alliance in 2004 and the second NATO formal meeting in Romania since the 2008 summit. NATO’s deputy secretary general, Mircea Geoană, says the event is a bridge between this summer’s summit in Madrid and the forthcoming summit in Vilnius, and a contribution made by Romania to the Alliance’s strategic thinking and response to the complex situation on the continent.
