The Ministers of Foreign Affairs and Defense, José Manuel Albares and Margarita Robles, appear to report on the NATO summit in Madrid. /
Albares goes to Moncloa to confirm whether the bilateral meetings planned during the NATO summit include an appointment with the president of the United States, despite the telephone conversation held this Tuesday between the two
The Government has left the meeting between President Pedro Sánchez and his American counterpart, Joe Biden, up in the air during the bilateral meetings scheduled for the NATO summit to be held next week in Madrid, on the 29th and 30th of June.
The Minister of Foreign Affairs, José Manuel Albares, confirmed this Wednesday that Sánchez, as president of the country organizing the meeting of the Atlantic Alliance, already has closed meetings with heads of state and/or presidents of member countries and other leaders invited to the summit, but he did not want to confirm that he will meet with Biden on this agenda.
“It is information that Moncloa will report at the time, although Spain will have a leading role in bilateral meetings, some of which are very important,” Albares explained at a press conference in Moncloa to explain the development of the summit.
The non-confirmation of this relevant diplomatic meeting comes after Sánchez and Biden spoke this Tuesday by phone for 20 minutes, as confirmed by the former. They talked about the relevance of the Madrid summit for the future of NATO, “a historic event in which the Alliance will strengthen its unity and cohesion, in defense of democracy and freedom”, according to the Spanish president in his profile of social networks.
The socialist leader also assured that his North American counterpart had thanked Spain “for its efforts in organizing the summit”, which will be his first visit to Spain since he assumed the US presidency. In a statement, the White House said that Biden “has shown his appreciation for Spain’s close cooperation in response to Russia’s war in Ukraine, including its provision of humanitarian and security assistance to Ukraine and its support for tough sanctions against Russia.” “.
The call, which according to government sources was proposed by Washington, comes on the eve of the Democratic leader’s tour of Europe to attend both the NATO summit and the G-7 summit to be held from 26 to 28 June at Elmau Castle, in the German state of Bavaria.
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