NATO-Russia Council Meeting Scheduled for Next Week Amid Ukraine Crisis

Flags wave outside the Alliance headquarters ahead of a NATO Defence Ministers meeting, in Brussels, Belgium, on Oct. 21, 2021. Pascal Rossignol/Reuters

The head of NATO confirmed on Tuesday that a special NATO-Russia Council (NRC) meeting will take place next week as both sides seek to address the developments in Ukraine.

“The NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg has convened a meeting of the NRC on Jan. 12 in his capacity as the Chair of the NRC,” according to a statement by the alliance, Russia’s state-owned news agency TASS reported.