Brussels: Europe and the Arabs
Meetings of foreign ministers of NATO member states will begin this afternoon at NATO headquarters in Brussels
As NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg announced on the eve of the meeting, NATO will reaffirm its long-term support for Ukraine while foreign ministers address pressing security issues.
  According to a statement in Brussels, the meeting of NATO foreign ministers in Brussels over two days will address the wars in Ukraine and the Middle East, as well as the growing strategic competition and Sweden’s steps towards NATO membership.
The meetings come at a time when the Middle East region is witnessing a security and humanitarian crisis that may have repercussions on the member states of the alliance, in the wake of the escalation that began between Hamas and Israel on the seventh of last October, and Hamas’ detention of approximately 200 Israeli hostages. Then Israel responded by bombing the Gaza Strip, which resulted in... Thousands of children and women were killed. A truce was reached four days ago and was extended yesterday for two days.
According to the program of meetings announced by NATO headquarters, Stoltenberg will meet this afternoon with US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, and they will hold a press conference. Then the first session of foreign ministers will be held, and in the afternoon, European Union Foreign Policy Coordinator Josep Borrell will participate in the second session of the ministerial meeting.
  On the second day, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine will participate in the meeting of the NATO-Ukraine Joint Committee