Not Invited: Targeted. NATO Excluded Belarus, Russia from 32-Nation Partnership Meeting.
Lieutenant Hans-Werner Wiermann, Director General of the NATO International Military Staff, held a meeting of NATO partner states – the first in-person one since the advent of the COVID-19 outbreak – at the military alliance’s headquarters in Brussels, Belgium on July 14.
The get-together was designed to evaluate the results of the June 14 NATO summit and to enhance existing military partnership programs, of which NATO has several throughout the world.
The German military officer became his nation’s representative to NATO and the European Union in 2015 and four years later was appointed NATO’s Director General International Military Staff. He highlighted cooperation between the 30 members of NATO and its partners during the current pandemic, and the participants – all military representatives – analyzed the NATO 2030 agenda published in advance of this year’s summit.