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King Felipe VI of Spain and Queen Leticia of Spain welcomed Prime Minister Jacinda Ardan at the Palace of Zarzuela during the NATO summit.
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern will speak at the NATO summit after spending the night with the most powerful Western leaders at a supper hosted by the King of Spain.
Called Australia, New Zealand, Japan and South Korea, AP4 will speak on the second day of the summit in Madrid and meet with NATO Secretary-General Jens Stortenberg.
The four countries are primarily North American military alliances, not members of NATO, which is part of the European nations, but are considered official allies of the alliance.
Ardern said Tuesday night’s dinner at the Palace of Zarzuela was a fairly intimate and relaxing event, with invitations only reaching the head of government and its partners.
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She said it gave elected leaders the opportunity to speak more openly. The guest list includes US President Joe Biden and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson. According to Ardern, the event also included a very specific dress code. Formal but not a ball gown, a dress not higher than the knees, not the length of the floor.
“We don’t have any particularly flashy events. The dress code itself shows the tone,” she said.
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The world leaders of the NATO summit in Madrid were dinner at the Palace of Zarzuela by King Felipe VI of Spain.
Ardern gave a keynote speech at the Tech4 Democracy conference on Tuesday, focusing on using propaganda and misinformation to polarize and tear society apart. She said the weaponization of the Internet to disseminate false information poses a global security threat.
NATO member countries are working to finalize strategies on how to address security risks in their regions. They provide a 10-year plan to anticipate major security threats and outline how to address them.
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is the most pressing attack on Europe’s peace, but NATO’s “strategic concept” looks farther away.
In last year’s speech, Stoltenberg called on NATO members to work closely with Pacific and Asian countries, especially as China is more involved and seeks to expand its influence in the region.
Relations with China are expected to be an important issue in NATO’s 10-year strategic initiative.
In talks with European leaders such as the Presidents of France and Spain, Emmanuel Macron and Pedro Sanchez, Ardern is a cross-border effort to reduce extremism and intensification online as areas that need to be continued. Concentration said that he raised the Christchurch call.
In an interview she said thing She planned to emphasize the importance of climate change as the most pressing threat to the security and stability of the Pacific Ocean.
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Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern speaks with staff before his trip to Europe.
She also raised trade barriers as a force contributing to the instability of Asia and Pacific.
Prior to her NATO “intervention,” called a speech in Madrid, Ardern said the West needed to take a broader view, especially on Pacific diplomacy.
“Relationships should not be seen through military lenses,” she said.
She said that if the United States or Europe were more involved and traded more with the Pacific, relations between the two regions would improve. China is moving in the Pacific and is investing heavily in the infrastructure of many countries, but Ardern said other countries could also look to strengthen economic relations and increase stability. Said.
“That’s what we said very clearly to the United States, and that’s the view I share with Europe.”
Ardern is speaking to the NATO summit on Wednesday afternoon local time, following a long-awaited speech from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in the morning.
The main first day of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) summit was the debate over whether Sweden and Finland could participate in NATO. Turkey was against their application. Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said the Nordic countries have supported a group of Kurds who say Turkey is a terrorist.
Late Tuesday, Stoltemberg issued a statement that the dispute had been resolved. “Turkey, Finland and Sweden have signed a memorandum of understanding to address Turkey’s concerns, such as arms exports and the war on terror.”
The members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) operate on a consensus basis. In short, opposition from Turkey alone may have been sufficient to prevent Sweden and Finland from joining the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).