Sweden to host informal meeting of NATO Ministers of Foreign Affairs in Helsingborg in May 2026
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In May 2026, Sweden will host the informal meeting of NATO Ministers of Foreign Affairs. Helsingborg has been confirmed as the location of the meeting.
“I am proud to announce that next year, Sweden will host the informal meeting of NATO Ministers of Foreign Affairs in Skåne. I look forward to welcoming my counterparts to a strategically important region. Helsingborg’s location on the Öresund strait, which is one of the world’s busiest straits and the entrance to the Baltic Sea, links the Nordic region and Europe,” says Sweden’s Minister for Foreign Affairs Maria Malmer Stenergard.
Preparations for the meeting have begun and are closely coordinated with NATO, whose Secretary-General will chair the meeting.
Press contact
Press Secretary to Minister for Foreign Affairs Maria Malmer Stenergard
Phone (switchboard) +46 8 405 10 00
Mobile +46 76-130 95 62
email to Susan Vo Bergqvist
Further information on the informal meeting of NATO Ministers of Foreign Affairs
This meeting is one in a series of annual informal get-togethers that were initiated in 2022 in Berlin, and then continued in Oslo and Prague. Türkiye (Antalya) is hosting the meeting in 2025. The purpose of the meeting is to create a forum for more confidential discussions between NATO’s Ministers of Foreign Affairs.
