Foreign Affairs Council, 12 November 2019

Summary:

A meeting of the Foreign Affairs Council was held on 12 November 2019. On this occasion, the meeting focused on matters related to Defence. The agenda includes the following items:

• Strategic discussion on security and defence issues:
  • Review of progress and reflection on future priorities;
  • Adoption of Decision launching new projects in the framework of PESCO;
  • Discussion on coherence between PESCO and other EU defence initiatives.
• Exchange of views on EU-NATO cooperation with NATO Deputy Secretary General:
  • Discussion on political dialogue, parallel and coordinated exercises and military mobility;
  • State of play of preparations for forthcoming NATO Leaders' Meeting.
• Discussion on the state of CSDP deployments.

The European Defence Agency's steering board held a meeting before the start of the Foreign Affairs Council. During that meeting, a signing ceremony took place to mark the transfer of the PESCO project chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear (CBRN) Surveillance as a Service (CBRN SaaS) into the Agency’s framework.

• Primary Source

Official

Outcome of the Foreign Affairs Council (Defence), 12 November 2019 https://www.consilium.europa.eu/media/41337/st13976-en19.pdf

EU EDA: News, 12/11/2019: Defence Ministers set expectations ahead of first CARD Report https://www.eda.europa.eu/info-hub/press-centre/latest-news/2019/11/12/defence-ministers-set-expectations-ahead-of-first-card-report

EU EDA: News, 12/11/2019: EDA to take forward PESCO project on CBRN surveillance https://www.eda.europa.eu/info-hub/press-centre/latest-news/2019/11/12/eda-to-take-forward-pesco-project-on-cbrn-surveillance

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