NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg on Thursday canceled his planned visits to Berlin today and Bucharest tomorrow for health reasons, although he will participate in the events that he has on his agenda telematically.
“He has been diagnosed with shingles, which may come on after COVID-19 and you’re working from home”, a NATO official told Efe.
The Norwegian politician and economist tested positive for COVID-19 in mid-May.
Nevertheless, the secretary general will make his planned visit to Germany today “from a distance instead of in person”.
Thus, he will hold virtual meetings with the German Chancellor, Olaf Scholz, and his Defense Minister, Christine Lambrechg, NATO reported.
Stoltenberg will also replace his planned presence this Friday at the Bucharest-9 (B-9) Summit, organized by the presidents of Romania and Poland, Klaus Iohannis and Andrzej Duda, respectively, by a telematic intervention, the Alliance reported in another statement.
Madrid, on May 30, and Washington, on June 3, were the destinations of the last two work trips of the head of the Atlantic Alliance in the framework of the preparation of the NATO summit in Madrid at the end of this month .
This same Wednesday, Stoltenberg held telephone conversations with the prime ministers of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, Kaja Kallas, Krisjanis Karins and Ingrida Simonyte, respectively, to prepare for the Madrid summit.
“We are preparing the next summit, where we will significantly strengthen NATO’s defense and deterrence to respond to a new security reality,” Stoltenberg wrote on his official Twitter account.
An issue that will be on the table at the meeting of the North Atlantic Council (NAC) at the level of defense ministers that will take place on Wednesday and Thursday of next week at NATO headquarters in Brussels, and that Stoltenberg was expected to chair. .
Finland, Georgia, Sweden, Ukraine and the European Union, partners of the Alliance, are invited to this meeting. EFE
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