WASHINGTON (dpa-AFX) – US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is traveling to Berlin for a meeting of NATO foreign ministers on Saturday. There, the allies wanted to discuss how to proceed in the face of “Russia’s brutal war against Ukraine,” the State Department said in Washington on Thursday. Other topics include the preparations for the NATO summit in Madrid at the end of June and work on a new strategic concept. In addition, the possible inclusion of Finland and Sweden in the military alliance is likely to be at stake.
At the meeting of foreign ministers of the G7 group of seven important industrialized nations, which began on Thursday in Weienhuser Strand on the Baltic Sea, Blinken is missing due to a Covid disease. He will be represented by top diplomat Victoria Nuland. Blinken, however, took appointments in Washington. The US Secretary of State then wants to travel to France on Sunday together with US Trade Representative Katherine Tai and Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo./nau/DP/he