{"id":673,"date":"2026-05-12T02:50:38","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T02:50:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/?p=673"},"modified":"2026-05-12T02:50:38","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T02:50:38","slug":"nato-never-more-important-than-today-canada-fm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/?p=673","title":{"rendered":"NATO never more important than today: Canada FM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>BRUSSELS: The \u201cresilient\u201d NATO alliance can weather criticism from US President Donald Trump and remains crucial to underpinning Western security in the face of Russia, Canada\u2019s Foreign Minister Anita Anand said Monday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cNATO as a defensive alliance committed to collective security could never be more important than it is today,\u201d Anand told <em>AFP<\/em> in an interview in Brussels.<\/p>\n<p>Canada\u2019s top diplomat was meeting counterparts from the EU\u2019s 27 nations in the latest demonstration of deepening ties as Trump has rocked the global order.<\/p>\n<p>Ottawa has been stepping up ties with the EU and other key partners as part of Prime Minister Mark Carney\u2019s efforts to increase cooperation between \u201cmiddle powers\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe EU is an extremely important facet of Canada\u2019s work to diversify trade, and we will continue to build supply chains, to build trading relationships so that we double non-US trade over the next 10 years,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat ultimately has to be our goal, as we see a complete rewiring of the global trading order.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Anand \u2014 who was also holding talks with NATO chief Mark Rutte \u2014 pushed back against the notion that Trump had fatally undermined the defence alliance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot at all \u2014 NATO is a resilient alliance,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is reasonable for member states to have differing opinions, but the resilience of the organisation means that we come together, have difficult conversations, and emerge from those conversations committed to collective defence and security.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BRUSSELS: The \u201cresilient\u201d NATO alliance can weather criticism from US President Donald Trump and remains crucial to underpinning Western security in the face of Russia, Canada\u2019s Foreign Minister Anita Anand said Monday. \u201cNATO as a defensive alliance committed to collective security could never be more important than it is today,\u201d Anand told AFP in an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":674,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}