Bucharest is the capital of European and Euro-Atlantic diplomacy and even beyond these regions, the Romanian foreign minister Bogdan Aurescu said. Apart from the meeting of NATO foreign ministers, Romania is hosting these days, for the first time ever, a Munich Leaders Meeting. 75 top-level governmental officials and foreign policy and security experts are discussing the consequences of the war in Ukraine as well as other security issues in the region. The 11th Aspen Forum also begins in Bucharest today, with participants including the NATO secretary general Jens Stoltenberg. The 2022 edition of the Forum takes place in the context of the war in Ukraine, which has affected the entire world both in economic and security terms, and which is not expected to come to an end soon, therefore it will only deepen multiple crisis, the Aspen Institute says in a news release posted ahead of the meeting. Also in Bucharest, a new energy coordination task force is scheduled to convene. The group comprises officials of G7 and other Allied countries, and is working to mobilise or plan the supply of equipment to Ukraine as soon as possible.
