The Latvian, Slovakian, and Ukrainian Foreign Ministers – Edgars Rinkēvičs, Miroslav Lajčák, and Pavlo Klimkin – will attend the event. The traditional meeting has taken place during the second week of January since 2008.
The meeting will discuss ways to maintain a strong transatlantic link and to strengthen NATO, which plays a major role in contributing to the Alliance's collective security and celebrates its 70th anniversary in 2019. The focus will be on the Russian threat and response measures. A separate session will discuss EU initiatives of closer cooperation in the field of defense.
A total of about 100 high-ranking diplomats, advisers, parliamentarians, experts from analytical and research centers, as well as international and security policy experts from about 15 countries, NATO and EU institutions will also attend the meeting. The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Linas Linkevičius will open the event.
