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The 'Visegrad Four Prime ministers' group meets for a summit in Krakow. IMAGES
NATO defence ministers hold a meeting in Brussels as the alliance debates how to maintain support for Ukraine in its fight against Russia despite ongoing delays in passing new US aid, which the alliance's chief Jens Stoltenberg says was already hurting Kyiv's forces on the battlefield. The US Senate on Tuesday approved a $95 billion package for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan by a comfortable margin, but House Speaker Mike Johnson, a Donald Trump ally, has refused to put it to a vote in the lower chamber. IMAGES
Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar and UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak hold a bilateral meeting in Granada, Spain, at the European Political Community (EPC) -- an informal group which includes all 27 European Union countries and many NATO member states, along with their European neighbours, excluding Russia. IMAGES
French President Emmanuel Macron meets with the Prime Ministers of New Zealand, Chris Hipkins, and Australia, Anthony Albanese, on the sidelines of a key NATO summit in Vilnius. The summit, dominated by the issues of allied support for Ukraine and Sweden's membership bid, is being held in the Lithuanian capital, 35 kilometres from the border with Belarus, a Moscow ally, and not far from the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad. IMAGES
NATO Foreign Affairs Ministers hold a roundtable as the US-led defence alliance meets in Oslo meeting, with the provision of security guarantees to Ukraine after its war with Russia ends on the agenda as the alliance looks to narrow divisions over Kyiv's push to join the bloc. Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February last year has galvanised the Western military alliance set up almost 75 years ago to face off against the Soviet Union. IMAGES
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