The one at the NATO summit in Madrid:
Russian President Vladimir Putin warns Finland and Sweden that if they host NATO troops and military infrastructure on their territory, Russia will react accordingly.
He said Wednesday that Russia will have to “create the same threats to the territory from which threats are created. “
The two former non-aligned Baltic states were officially invited on Wednesday to join the Western army alliance.
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said the war in Ukraine has led to “the biggest overhaul of our collective defense since the end of the Cold War. “
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NATO leaders and European Union Heads of State and Government appreciated some of the world’s most important arts and paid attention to a live Ukrainian classical orchestra as they gathered for dinner at the Prado Museum in Madrid.
Wednesday’s dinner — prepared through Spanish-American conductor Jose Andres — was preceded by a concert by the Kyiv Symphony Orchestra, in exile because of the war.
US President Joe Biden attended the occasion with his two granddaughters. Also present were the mayor of the Ukrainian town of Kyiv, Vitali Klitschko, and his brother Wladimir.
The organization posed for a photo of the circle of relatives on either side of Diego Velázquez’s “Las Meninas,” the jewel in the museum’s crown, before sitting down to eat in the annex of the Jerónimos cloister.
The menu included a dessert of strawberries from the city of Cuenca seasoned with anise, violet caramel and a typical Madrid cake “wafer”.
The dish included cod with orange and beetroot, as well as a bloodless lobster soup scented with Spanish olive oil and basil. The main course had to be slowly roasted lamb with lemon puree.
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan expresses optimism about opening humanitarian corridors to allow the export of Ukrainian grains to the rest of the world amid the Russian war.
Tens of millions of people around the world are at risk of starvation as the four-month war has halted grain shipments from Ukraine.
Speaking at an assembly with US President Joe Biden on the sidelines of the NATO summit, Erdogan said: “We are looking for the procedure with a policy of balance. Our hope is that this policy of equilibrium will produce effects and allow us to obtain grain for countries that lately face shortages through a room as soon as possible. »
Turkey has played a central role in negotiations with Russia and Ukraine to try to reach an agreement that would increase the amount of grain that can leave Ukraine amid the conflict.
Some of the grain was transported west by rail from Ukraine, but experts say Ukraine’s ability to export grain across the Black Sea needs to be restored to have a significant effect on alleviating global food shortages.
Erdogan said that “NATO measures would also contribute to the Russian-Ukrainian process. “
During their meeting, Biden praised Erdogan for abandoning his opposition to the NATO club of Finland and Sweden and for “all the work he is doing to get the grain out of Ukraine. “
He said the couple would talk about either issue when they met.
Biden added, “You’re doing a wonderful job, just to thank you. “
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Ukrainians living in Spain staged a nonviolent demonstration in aid of the alliance, saluting their help to Ukraine in the face of the Russian invasion.
Yuriy Chopyk, president of the Ukrainian Community in Spain, thanked NATO members and allied countries for their help, but said the aid provided so far is inadequate to defeat Russian troops.
NATO had to “stop this war, they are killing us, destroying the whole country, destroying the Ukrainian nation,” he said.
Chopyk for redoubling efforts with the provision of more weapons and military equipment.
“We need to make a big call, NATO will have to help prevent this Ukrainian genocide that Russia is committing,” he said.
Wednesday’s demonstration brought together about fifty other people in a Community of Madrid near the site of the two-day NATO summit.
Thousands of police and security forces protect the capital ahead of the NATO summit and prevent protesters from reaching the summit site.
So far, two non-violent protests have occupied the summit on Sunday and Monday in Madrid.
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Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi said plans for a greater U. S. military presence in Europe constitute an escalation of the military within NATO.
Draghi said the construction announced Wednesday through the White House would constitute 70 more U. S. troops on Italian soil and an already planned air defense system.
But he added at the NATO summit in Madrid: “We have to be prepared. “
Draghi said that, overall, Italy is sending 10,000 troops to NATO. This includes 2,000 split between NATO’s Italian command in Bulgaria, its presence in Romania and the workers’ air patrol corps over the Baltic. Another 8,000 are pending in Italy “if necessary”.
U. S. President Joe Biden said he was “deeply concerned” that North Korea might test a nuclear weapon.
Biden on Wednesday threatened Pyongyang with Washington’s Asian allies Japan and South Korea, on the sidelines of the NATO summit in Spain.
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said a nuclear missile control through North Korea would provoke a coordinated reaction from the three countries present at the meeting.
“I hope this can be taken at the trilateral level,” he said.
There were fears that North Korea would review a missile while Biden visited South Korea and Japan last month. He ended up firing 3 ballistic missiles shortly after Biden left home.
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NATO says a stronger and stronger European Union defence architecture can be “complementary” and “interoperable” with the alliance.
In its new Strategic Concept, which sets out the alliance’s priorities and objectives once every ten years, NATO, at its annual summit on Wednesday, described the EU as a “unique and indispensable partner”.
The document states that “initiatives to increase defense spending and expand coherent and mutually reinforcing capabilities, avoiding duplication, are imperative to our joint efforts to make Euro-Atlantic dominance more secure. “
The move echoes French President Emmanuel Macron’s move to expand greater EU defense autonomy. Macron, whose rotating presidency of the 27-27 bloc ends on Friday, has long championed the concept of making EU security less dependent on the United States and NATO.
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Queen Letizia of Spain acted as an excursion advisor to some of the first world leaders to attend the NATO summit in Madrid.
Wednesday’s included a photo of the organization in front of Pablo Picasso’s famous anti-war portrait “Guernica. “
Accompanied by spain’s First Lady, Begoña Gómez, the organization headed north on one of Spain’s ave high-speed trains to the city of Segovia, where the Queen took them on an excursion through the sumptuous Royal Palace and Gardens of La Granja de San Ildefonso.
He then returned by high-speed exercise to the Puerta de Atocha station in central Madrid and crossed the track to the Reina Sofía Art Museum.
There they saw Picasso’s wonderful oil masterpiece “Guernica” in black and white, an iconic painting depicting the horror of an Italian Nazi and Fascist aerial bombardment of a Basque city during the Spanish Civil War of 1936-1939.
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The Australian prime minister calls on China to condemn russia’s invasion of Ukraine and welcomes NATO’s security in the Asia-Pacific.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said Russia’s attack had strengthened the will of democratic nations around the world to work for a rules-based order.
Albanese had what he had was a “very successful” meeting with the leaders of Japan, South Korea and New Zealand on Wednesday in Madrid before the 4 joined the NATO summit in the city.
He said they discussed the “important” of the summit on the Asia-Pacific region.
Australia has an army and humanitarian assistance to Ukraine.
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French President Emmanuel Macron, Sweden and Finland would make a “significant” contribution to the NATO alliance.
Macron said that at a NATO summit assembly on Wednesday with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the couple stressed “the importance of sending a message of unity and strength” amid Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Macron welcomed Tuesday’s deal with Turkey, which accepted his opposition to Sweden and Finland joining the alliance.
The two leaders also discussed search tactics to allow Ukraine’s grain exports. They agreed to continue coordinating and working with the United Nations to create conditions for the security of the port of Odessa and maritime convoys in the Black Sea.
Odessa is a main gateway for grain shipments and its blockade through Russia threatens the world’s food supply.
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BEIJING — China blames NATO for what it calls the alliance’s “Cold War mentality. “
The comments came here as NATO leaders held a summit in Spain, where China was expected to challenge the alliance.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian said NATO “abandons the Cold War mentality, the zero-sum game and the practice of creating enemies, and does not try to spoil Asia and the rest of the world after disrupting Europe. “
He accused NATO members of “creating tensions and provoking conflict” by sending warships and aircraft to spaces near the Asian continent and the South China Sea.
His comments about a recent interception of a Canadian NATO surveillance plane through a Chinese fighter in foreign airspace, which Canadian officials described as reckless on the part of the Chinese pilot.
And Australia, a best friend of the United States, said on May 26 that China had committed an act of aggression against an Australian Air Force aircraft conducting aerial surveillance in the South China Sea.
Zhao also criticized the sanctions against Russia, the invasion of Ukraine, refused to condemn or even qualify as an act of aggression.
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A senior European Union official welcomes the bloc’s option to its ties with NATO.
Charles Michel, president of the European Council, said the EU and the army alliance had no unusual values that would be exposed at Wednesday’s NATO summit.
Asked if EU members increased their defence spending in reaction to the Russian risk following the invasion of Ukraine, Michel replied: “Yes!Yes!Yes!”
He added: “And we are doing it because we have to accumulate (defence spending) in 200 billion euros in the coming years . . . But it’s not enough. “
Michel and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen are invited to a dinner with the leaders of NATO’s 30 members and other national leaders from Europe and the Pacific later at the Prado Museum in Madrid. Leaders of the six non-NATO EU members will also attend the dinner, joining Sweden and Finland that they have implemented to sign up for the army alliance.
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy lamented NATO’s failure with his country and called on the alliance for more weapons.
Zelenskyy told a NATO summit in Madrid via video link that alliance leaders will have to provide Ukraine with the assistance it wants to defeat Russia or “face a delayed war between Russia and you. “
He also called on Wednesday for more artillery systems to repel the Russian invasion, which is now entering its fifth month.
Zelenskyy lamented that Ukraine’s efforts have gained closer ties with NATO.
He asked: “Hasn’t our contribution to the defence of Europe and all of civilisation been enough?What else is needed?”
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British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss said NATO had to make it clear to China that invading Taiwan would be “a catastrophic miscalculation. “
She said Wednesday that China’s developing global influence and military influence were “one for Euro-Atlantic security. “
NATO expects China as a challenge to the alliance when it defines its strategy for the next decade at a summit in Madrid.
Speaking on the sidelines of the summit, Truss said that “with China extending its influence, economic coercion and building a capable army, there is a genuine threat that they will bring out the misconception that gives rise to a catastrophic miscalculation like the invasion of Taiwan. “. “
He suggested that NATO countries approach Taiwan economically and diplomatically.
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US President Joe Biden has said that the US military’s presence in Europe is about to increase, as NATO responds to Moscow’s risk following russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Biden says the U. S. is in the process of establishing a permanent headquarters in Poland, sending two more squadrons of F-35 fighter jets to the U. K. and sending more “air defense and other capabilities” to Germany and Italy.
The United States is strengthening its military functions in Romania and the Baltic region.
In a meeting with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg in Madrid on Wednesday for the alliance’s annual summit, Biden said: “NATO is strong and united, and the steps we are taking at this summit will contribute to further strengthening our collective strength. “
“Today, I declare that the United States will adopt our position of strength in Europe and respond to the transformation of the security environment while protecting our collective security,” Biden said, detailing the announcements.
A day earlier, Biden announced that the United States would install two more destroyers at its naval base in Rota, Spain.
The United States provides most of NATO’s military might.
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U. S. President Joe Biden took cover with NATO Secretary General and 29 national leaders for a photo at the long-awaited military alliance summit in Madrid.
Biden at the forefront along with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, the 3 dressed in blue ties to capture nato colors.
The leaders then headed to a meeting room to begin the opening consultation on Wednesday, which will focus on NATO’s plans to bolster theirs for Ukraine amid the Russian invasion.
The photo was released minutes after President Biden announced he would deploy more troops, planes and warships to Europe to increase NATO’s reaction force from 40,000 to 300,000 troops.
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NATO leaders said strengthening the alliance’s forces in Eastern Europe as Russia’s stronghold is a key priority of the Madrid summit.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said Wednesday upon arrival at the talks that NATO will have to be informed “of the classes of recent months and the need for NATO to review its position on its eastern flank. “
Polish President Andrzej Duda said NATO’s commitment to particularly develop its immediate reaction force for Russia’s closest members will make Europe “safer. “
He said: “Russia is a risk for Europe and only for Europe, but for the whole of NATO.
NATO has announced it will increase its immediate reaction force from 40,000 to 300,000 for its eastern flank, which includes Poland’s borders with Ukraine and Belarus, Russia’s best friend.
The summit’s opening open consultation on Wednesday will focus on how NATO can provide more for Ukraine.
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German Foreign Minister Olaf Scholz said NATO members and others would continue to leverage Ukraine’s ability to protect Russia’s enemies “for as long as necessary. “
Speaking Wednesday at the start of the NATO summit in Madrid, Scholz said the military alliance “and many other nations” had agreed that Russia had violated Ukraine’s territorial integrity and sovereignty in its Feb. 24 attack.
“That is why it is right that the countries gathered here, and many others, make a contribution through monetary means, humanitarian aid, but also by offering weapons that Ukraine urgently needs” to protect itself, Scholz said.
“We will continue to do so for as long and as long as necessary, so that Ukraine can do it on its own,” he added.
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Some 10,000 police officers block the Spanish capital for the NATO summit.
The gathering of 40 world leaders, including the U. S. president. U. S. President Joe Biden takes control of roads in the form of police vans and armored vehicles.
They call the expanding IFEMA convention in Madrid, on the outskirts of the city, where talks open on Wednesday.
The Spanish National Police has deployed surveillance drones, while the flight of civilian drones is prohibited the event.
The City Council has asked The people of Madrid to stay away from home if possible and avoid further complicating the traffic disorders caused by security devices.
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NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said the military alliance is its “biggest challenge” since World War II amid the war in Ukraine.
Stoltenberg said Wednesday at the start of the NATO summit in Madrid that the allies were meeting “amid the most serious security crisis we have ever faced. “
“This will be a transformative summit,” he told reporters.
Stoltenberg said the alliance would agree to deterrence, so it could deploy more combat formations and get more aircraft previously positioned in Eastern Europe over the next year.
Ukrainian President Volodymir Zelenskyy is expected to deal with the video link of the 30 leaders on Wednesday, as the Russian invasion extends into its fifth month.
Collecting has already noticed a decisive agreement between Turkey and Finland and Sweden for the Nordic countries to start their accession process.
Turkey applied to join the alliance after witnessing Russia’s brutal attack on neighboring Ukraine, but Turkey had some fears that were overcome on Tuesday.
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