Canada, NATO Allies Discuss World Security Issues in Face of COVID-19 Pandemic

Canada, NATO Allies Discuss World Security Issues in Face of COVID-19 Pandemic
Foreign Affairs Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne responds to a question during a news conference in Ottawa on March 9, 2020. Adrian Wyld/ The Canadian Press
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Foreign Affairs Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne is meeting his NATO counterparts this morning to discuss the alliance’s response to the COVID-19 crisis while it continues to face daunting global security challenges.

Canada is leading NATO’s military training mission in Iraq and has troops in Latvia as part of the alliance’s deterrence efforts against Russia, which breached Europe’s border by annexing part of Ukraine in 2014.