The Secretary of State of the United States, Antony Blinken, congratulated his Spanish counterpart, José Manuel Albares, on Friday for organizing the NATO summit on June 28, 29 and 30 in Madrid, during a meeting on the margins of the G20 Foreign Affairs meeting in Bali (Indonesia).
Blinken and Albares spoke in the corridors of the Mulia hotel (Nusa Dua, east of Bali), where the meeting of the group of diplomatic chiefs of the main industrialized and emerging countries took place between Thursday and Friday, at which time the American congratulated Spain on the NATO summit.
The two also briefly discussed "the consequences of the Russian aggression against Ukraine and the importance of multilateralism," according to Albares' own Twitter account.
On June 28, 29 and 30, the capital of Spain brought together forty Heads of State and Government in the framework of the NATO summit, which approved the Alliance's new strategic concept.
It is a basic document on which its entire defense and security strategy for the next ten years is articulated and in which the current challenges facing the Euro-Atlantic model are addressed.
NATO leaders pledged to deploy more "robust" and "combat-ready" forces on the Alliance's eastern flank, to expand the current battalions deployed in eight Eastern European countries.
During the meeting, the NATO countries reinforced their support for Ukraine, which has suffered from the Russian invasion since February 24, and an agreement was reached on the future entry into the Alliance of Sweden and Finland, after Turkey raised your veto on this issue.
In addition, in this new strategy, NATO has come to consider Russia as its main threat, while warning that China poses a "challenge" to its values.
