Brussels: Europe and the Arabs
NATO headquarters in Brussels announced on Monday that NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg will visit the Republic of South Korea and Japan from January 29 to February 1, 2023. According to a statement by the alliance, he
In Seoul on January 29-30, the Secretary-General will meet with Foreign Minister Park Jin, Minister of National Defense Lee Jong-sub, and other senior officials. He will also give a talk at the CHEY Institute, and take part in a wreath-laying ceremony at the National Cemetery.
A Ma In Tokyo from January 30 to February 1, the Secretary-General of the Alliance will meet with Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and other senior officials. Will also deliver a moribund at Keio University.
In a separate statement, NATO Headquarters announced that on Tuesday "tomorrow" corresponding to January 24, 2023, NATO Secretary General Mr. Stoltenberg will meet with German Federal Minister of Defense Mr. Boris Pistorius in Berlin.
The dossier of developments in Ukraine will be the main focus of the talks that the Secretary-General will hold, whether during his visit to Japan and Korea or with the German Minister of Defense.
This comes at a time when European positions differ with regard to supplying Ukraine with tanks, according to the statements of the head of the Brussels Center for Studies, Ramadan Abu Jazar, who added, "Germany has reservations about sending its advanced Leopard 2 tanks, and Poland is pressuring the Union countries to expedite the provision of military support to Ukraine ... And France does not rule out sending French Leclerc tanks.
Ukraine is asking for about 300 tanks in order to help it carry out the counterattack, but I do not think that Germany and France can provide this number of tanks and talk about much smaller numbers than what the Ukrainian president is asking for.
He concluded, in televised statements: "The dispute here is about making a political decision, as European officials are unable to take decisions with this support without many calculations that always delay consensus, but European military support will continue to the Ukrainian army, even if it is delayed, it will reach