{"id":33008,"date":"2022-03-16T19:07:37","date_gmt":"2022-03-16T18:07:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/?p=33008"},"modified":"2022-03-16T19:07:37","modified_gmt":"2022-03-16T18:07:37","slug":"nato-defense-ministers-meeting-peleshi-reiterates-albanias-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/nato-defense-ministers-meeting-peleshi-reiterates-albanias-support\/","title":{"rendered":"NATO defense ministers meeting, Peleshi reiterates Albania\u2019s support"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NATO defense ministers met at the headquarters of the Alliance in Brussels in an extraordinary session over Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Albania\u2019s defense minister Niko Peleshi clarified the country\u2019s stance in supporting Ukraine\u2019s territorial integrity and sovereignty and denounced Russia for violating international laws.<\/p>\n<p>He said that the conflict should remain outside NATO borders, as Russia\u2019s influence is considered a viable threat for the entire Western Balkans region.<\/p>\n<p>NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg asserted that Ukraine will continue to have full and continuous military support from the Alliance.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting comes ahead of the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nato.int\/cps\/en\/natohq\/news_193226.htm\">extraordinary summit<\/a><\/strong> of Allied Heads of State and Government due to take place on 24 March 2022 at NATO Headquarters in Brussels, Belgium.<\/p>\n<p><strong>YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/kosovo\/2022\/03\/05\/osmani-kosovos-nato-membership-a-precondition-to-peace-in-the-region\/\">Osmani: Kosovo\u2019s NATO membership, a precondition to peace in the region<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/europe\/2022\/03\/04\/updates-from-ukraine-march-4-nato-leader-call-on-russia-to-cease-fire\/\">Updates from Ukraine, March 4: NATO leaders call on Russia to cease fire<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/balkans\/2022\/02\/28\/vucic-reacts-to-kosovos-request-to-speed-of-accession-to-nato\/\">Vucic reacts to Kosovo\u2019s request to speed up accession to NATO<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NATO defense ministers met at the headquarters of the Alliance in Brussels in an extraordinary session over Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine. 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He said that the conflict should remain outside NATO borders, as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":33009,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[153],"tags":[270,569,895,151,894,791,892,284,893,285],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>NATO defense ministers meeting, Peleshi reiterates Albania\u2019s support - Euronews Albania<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/nato-defense-ministers-meeting-peleshi-reiterates-albanias-support\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"NATO defense ministers meeting, Peleshi reiterates Albania\u2019s support - Euronews Albania\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"NATO defense ministers met at the headquarters of the Alliance in Brussels in an extraordinary session over Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine. 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