NATO chief set to visit Canadian Arctic defence site in Nunavut – National
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is internet hosting a second high-profile worldwide customer this week, with NATO Secretary-Normal Jens Stoltenberg arriving in Canada Thursday.
They’re scheduled to tour a navy radar web site in Cambridge Bay, Nvt., marking the primary time any NATO chief has visited Canada’s Arctic.
Senior Canadian and NATO officers say the go to is supposed to focus on that the area is a safety precedence, in mild of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and points associated to local weather change.
Quickly accelerating melting within the Arctic implies that the world is extra accessible to allies, and to enemies.
Stoltenberg’s final go to to Canada was in 2019, however he and Trudeau met on the NATO summit in Madrid in late June.
Earlier within the week, the prime minister was in Toronto and Newfoundland with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, whose go to was meant to strengthen the inexperienced power ties between the 2 international locations.
