North Atlantic Council

Greek Defense Minister Nikos Dendias was heading to Lithuania on Tuesday to attend the North Atlantic Council meeting of NATO defense ministers in the capital, Vilnius.

Dendias will also attend the dinner for defense and foreign affairs ministers on the same evening.

Türkiye's top defense official held separate talks on June 16 with his Dutch and U.S. counterparts on the sidelines of a NATO meeting, the Turkish National Defense Ministry announced. 

Caretaker Minister of Foreign Affairs Nikolay Milkov was released by decree of President Rumen Radev. It was published today in the State Gazette.

With the same decree, Ivan Iliev Kondov, who until now held the position of permanent secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, was appointed to the position of acting foreign minister.

NATO ambassadors will hold an extraordinary meeting at the headquarters in Brussels, according to BGNES. The news comes after an escalation of tensions in the Middle East over the assassination of Iranian General Qasem Soleimani.

""The North Atlantic Council will address the situation in the region," a NATO official said.

This was decided at the meeting of the Council of Ministers on Wednesday, reported NOVA TV. 

The government approved the draft of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) accession protocol of the Republic of Macedonia.

He said that despite Russia's opposition to the expansion of the Western military alliance, "NATO's doors remain open."

NATO today reappointed Jens Stoltenberg as secretary general to serve until 2020, as the alliance undergoes its biggest revamp since the Cold War to counter the perceived threat posed by Russia.

BRUSSELS - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic requested at a meeting with NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg in Brussels on Wednesday that the military alliance's forces remain in Kosovo-Metohija.

BELGRADE - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic will meet with EU foreign policy and security chief Federica Mogherini in Brussels on Wednesday before he pays a visit to NATO.

At the NATO headquarters, he will meet with the alliance's Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg and address the ambassadors of NATO member states at a North Atlantic Council meeting.

BELGRADE/BRUSSELS - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic will meet with NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg at the alliance's Brussels headquarters on Wednesday, the presidential office has confirmed to Tanjug.

During the visit, Vucic will attend a North Atlantic Council meeting.