NATO has confirmed it will hold a scheduled videoconference at the level of defense ministers on June 17-18. Meetings of the North Atlantic Council (NAC) Defense Ministers will be held via secure teleconference, the alliance’s press service said.

The meetings will be chaired by the NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, according to the statement issued on Tuesday.

The official agenda for the videoconference has yet to be disclosed. However, diplomatic sources in Brussels told TASS that the meetings will focus on “military operations and drills of the alliance amid the pandemic, consequences of the US unilateral exit from the Open Skies Treaty and the alliance’s military expenditure.”

Spending is likely to contract again due to the pandemic’s economic fallout.

Source: RT