NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg met with Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel on Tuesday (2 May 2017) at Palais d’Egmont to prepare for the meeting of NATO leaders in Brussels on 25 May.
The Secretary General thanked Belgium for hosting the Alliance’s headquarters for 50 years and for its support to the May meeting. Secretary General Stoltenberg and Prime Minister Michel discussed preparations for the meeting, which will focus on NATO’s role in the fight against terrorism, as well as the transatlantic bond and fair burden-sharing, in line with commitments made at the Wales and Warsaw Summits. They also discussed NATO-EU relations. The May meeting will mark the formal handover of the new NATO headquarters from host nation Belgium to NATO.
Source: NATO
By
L. J. De Rothschild
Senior Editor
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