Madrid, (EFE).- The Spanish Defense Minister, Margarita Robles, will not attend the meeting scheduled for Thursday in Brussels between NATO countries and the European and North American defense industry, since her country will not lift the veto until that includes Spanish companies.
Sources from the Ministry of Defense of Spain confirmed to EFE on Wednesday the veto of the Government of Madrid to that industrial plan in which no Spanish company is included, for which reason Robles will not attend.
However, the minister will travel to Brussels to participate in the meeting of the contact group for Ukraine and in the first working session of the North Atlantic Council at the level of defense ministers, both at the NATO headquarters in the Belgian capital.
NATO Secretary General, Jens Stoltenberg, stated on Wednesday that the meeting with companies from the defense sector and ministers in the field should keep a small format and that it was not expected that all the allies would be represented.
“This is an event in which we will meet with the defense industry, small, medium and large companies,” Stoltenberg explained about the meeting of allied defense ministers on Thursday and Friday in Brussels, on the margins of which it will take place. the encounter with the transatlantic military industry.