UK’s Streeting to visit Berlin for defense talks with Pistorius
German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius will host British counterpart Wes Streeting for inaugural bilateral talks.
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German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius will host British counterpart Wes Streeting in Berlin on Monday for talks on NATO, Ukraine, and bilateral defense cooperation.
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Germany and London seek to deepen defense partnership under Trinity House Agreement and Kensington Treaty.
BERLIN — German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius will host his British counterpart Wes Streeting in Berlin on Monday, Nov. 2, for talks on NATO, Ukraine and bilateral defense cooperation, Germany's defense ministry announced Wednesday.
Streeting, who took over as Britain's defense secretary in July, will make his inaugural visit to Berlin in his new role as part of the German-British Defence Ministerial Council.
The two ministers will meet at the defense ministry's headquarters, where Streeting will be received with military honors before laying a wreath at the Bundeswehr memorial.
According to the ministry, discussions will focus on the international security situation, the two countries' contributions to NATO, military support for Ukraine and closer defense-industrial cooperation.
The visit comes as Berlin and London seek to deepen their defense partnership under the landmark Trinity House Agreement signed in October 2024 and the broader Kensington Treaty concluded in 2025.
The meeting follows an E5 gathering of Europe's five major defense powers — Germany, Britain, France, Italy and Poland — in Paris on Monday, where ministers pledged to assume greater responsibility for European security while maintaining close cooperation with Washington.
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