NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg canceled a visit to Berlin scheduled for Thursday, June 9, according to Der Spiegel..

“Stoltenberg immediately informed the Federal Ministry of Defense. The reasons were not initially known.. NATO headquarters said that the Secretary General is ill and forced to spontaneously cancel the visit, ”the German edition reports..

At the same time, only the visit was canceled, and not meetings with German Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Defense Minister Christine Lambrecht. They will be online. They will discuss preparations for the NATO summit in Madrid at the end of June.

The German government calls the main topic the impact of the Russian war of aggression in Ukraine on the security situation in the Euro-Atlantic region. According to the Defense Ministry, the program also included a planned strengthening of NATO's eastern flank, a new NATO strategic concept, and the entry of Finland and Sweden into NATO..

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Recall, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg believes that Russia's war against Ukraine is likely to end at the negotiating table, like all armed conflicts before it.. The only question is when and under what conditions.

It was also reported that at the Alliance's summit, which is due to be held this month, a new Strategic Concept will be approved - for the first time since 2010, and it will be Russia that will be named the main threat in it..