OTTAWA — Foreign Affairs Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne is meeting his NATO counterparts Thursday to discuss the alliance’s response to the COVID-19 crisis while it continues to face daunting global security challenges.
Canada is leading NATO’s military training mission in Iraq and has troops in Latvia as part of the alliance’s deterrence efforts against Russia, which breached Europe’s border by annexing part of Ukraine in 2014.
Champagne’s office said in a statement the ministers will be talking on a secure video link about transatlantic security implications of the COVID-19 crisis and making a co-ordinated response. [ Sign up for our Health IQ newsletter for the latest coronavirus updates ] Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said