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Dutch prime Minister Mark Rutte welcomes NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg ahead of a working dinner for NATO Heads of State and Government, part of the preparations for the upcoming Summit in Vilnius. IMAGES
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan receives NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg for talks in Istanbul. The trip comes as pressure builds on Erdogan to drop his opposition to Sweden joining NATO. Stoltenberg on Thursday said he would soon visit Ankara to work towards Sweden joining "as early as possible". IMAGES
Dmytro Kuleba, Ukraine's foreign minister, and Jens Stoltenberg, NATO's Secretary General, meet in Brussels at the NATO foreign ministers meeting. As Finland joins the military alliance, Ukraine is also pushing for eventual NATO membership, but Western diplomats say that remains a still distant prospect. IMAGES
Retired NATO general Petr Pavel gives a speech to his crowd of supporters after winning the Czech presidential election. Pavel, a former paratrooper, won 58 percent of votes while his rival billionaire former prime minister Andrej Babis scored 42 percent, with 99 percent of the vote counted, according to the Czech Statistical Office. IMAGES
Britain's Prime Minister welcomes NATO's Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg to 10 Downing Street, with Rishi Sunak saying the UK remains "extremely committed to the alliance" and Stoltenberg saying he is "absolutely certain" that NATO can continue to count on the United Kingdom in a world that is "more contested" by "authoritarian regimes." IMAGES