UK and Turkey talk trade and Cyprus Issue at NATO Foreign Ministers Meeting in Brussels

A two-day round meeting is taking place in Brussels at the NATO foreign ministers meeting. 

“I sense a significant support for a bold and ambitious NATO 2030 agenda,” Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg told journalists following the first day of the NATO foreign ministers’ meeting in Brussels.

“We all agree that the transatlantic relationship embodied by NATO remains the cornerstone of our collective defense, central to our political relations, and an essential pillar to the rules-based order,” he explained.

The 2030 strategy is meant to prepare the military alliance for new challenges, such as Russia’s destabilizing activities, the threat of terrorism, sophisticated cyber-attacks, disruptive technologies, as well as the rise of China.

Following round table talks with the counterparts, a number of the smaller one-to-one meeting took place.

Yesterday the UK and Turkey sat down together, following the meeting Turkey’s foreign ministers Mevlut Cavusoglu shared a tweet highlighting that increases the target on the Free Trade Agreement to £20 billion countries was in talks as well as development in the Mediterranean including Cyprus.