The meeting of the Bucharest Nine (B9) group of eastern-flank NATO allies will take place in the central Polish city of Łódź on March 30 and 31, Polish foreign ministry spokesman Łukasz Jasina said on Tuesday.
He added that the consultations, chaired by Poland's Foreign Minister Zbigniew Rau, would be "part of preparations for a NATO summit in a few months."
NATO officials and representatives from Sweden, Finland and Spain are also expected to attend the gathering, according to Jasina.
On February 22, US President Joe Biden told a summit of B9 leaders in Warsaw that Article 5 of the alliance's collective defence treaty "is a sacred commitment” and that America "will defend literally every inch of NATO."
The Bucharest Nine is a Polish-Romanian initiative launched in 2015 that aims to help exchange views and coordinate positions on the security of NATO’s eastern-flank countries, according to officials.
The B9 group is made up of Poland, Romania, Lithuania, Bulgaria, Estonia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Latvia, and Slovakia.
Tuesday is day 377 of Russia’s war on Ukraine.
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Source: IAR, PAP
