Azerbaijani FM heads to Washington for key NATO summit event

Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov will leave for Washington today.

The foreign minister will take part in an alliance event within the framework of the NATO summit, Caliber.Az reports citing local media.

The 2024 Washington summit will bring together the heads of state and government from the thirty-two NATO member countries, their partners, and the European Union (EU) in Washington, DC, from July 9-11, 2024.

This meeting will celebrate the 75th anniversary of NATO, founded on April 4, 1949, with the signing of the North Atlantic Treaty in Washington, DC.

It will be the fourth NATO summit hosted in the United States, following the summits in 1978, 1999, and 2012, and marks the first summit since Sweden joined NATO and the last for Jens Stoltenberg as Secretary General.

Titled "Ukraine and Transatlantic Security," the summit will focus on NATO's response to global threats to peace and democracy, especially Russia's invasion of Ukraine and North Korea's support of Russia through weapon supplies and troop deployments to Ukraine.

Additionally, the summit will address boosting defence production and reaffirming the allies' commitment to military readiness and the defence of NATO territory.