NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg says the military alliance faces its “biggest challenge” since World War II amid Russia's war in Ukraine. Stoltenberg was speaking at the start of the NATO summit being hosted by Spain in Madrid.
Stoltenberg said NATO was undertaking “the biggest overhaul of our collective defense since the end of the Cold War.”
Russia is set to be declared the alliance’s number one threat, but the document will also set out NATO’s approach on issues from cybersecurity to climate change — and the growing economic and military reach of China. For the first time, the leaders of Japan, Australia, South Korea and New Zealand are attending the summit as guests, a reflection of the growing importance of the Indo-Pacific region.
The summit opened with one problem solved, after Turkey agreed Tuesday to lift its opposition to Sweden and Finland joining NATO. In response to the invasion, the two Nordic nations abandoned their long-held nonaligned status and applied to join NATO as protection against an increasingly aggressive and unpredictable Russia — which shares a long border with Finland.
After urgent top-level talks with leaders of the three countries, alliance Secretary Stoltenberg said the impasse had been cleared.
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