NATO ministers meet this Tuesday with Ukraine and China on the agenda to increase support for Ukraine and analyze “the challenges posed by China”.This meeting of the North Atlantic Council, NATO’s main political decision-making body, which will bring together foreign ministers at the Palace of Parliament, presence of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, Dmytro Kuleba, to discuss the country’s most urgent needs and NATO’s long-term support. — in which the head of Portuguese diplomacy, João Gomes Cravinho, will participate, – will be the conflict in Ukraine, at a time when the Russian Federation has taken advantage of the opportunity winter season to increase its offensive. NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has already anticipated that the Alliance “will not back down” and promised support to the Ukrainian authorities for “as long as necessary”, recognizing a “horrible beginning of winter” in that country. Stoltenberg hopes that the ministers of Foreign Affairs agree to increase “non-lethal” support. As for China, the NATO secretary general underlined that this power “is not a adversary” but “is intensifying military modernization, increasing its presence, from the Arctic to the Western Balkans, from space to cyberspace, and seeking to control the critical infrastructure of NATO allies”.Stoltenberg warned of the fact that the war in Ukraine has demonstrated “dangerous dependence” on Russian gas and wants the Allies to assess their dependence “on other authoritarian regimes, mainly China”. Business Foreigners from Finland and Sweden, two countries that in May of this year presented a joint proposal to join NATO, abandoning decades of military non-alignment, but whose process is still not finalized, lacking the ratification of Turkey and Hungary. Foreign Affairs from Bosnia-Herzegovina, Georgia and Moldova will also be present and the Secretary of State of the United States of America, Antony Blinken. .In October, 166 Portuguese soldiers (the 2nd Detached National Force) left for Romania to participate in NATO’s “enhanced Vigilance Activities”, which aim to contribute to the Alliance’s deterrence and defense efforts on its southeast flank. (RM-NM) Source: Rádio Moçambique Online