Luxembourg Minister of Foreign and European Affairs, Jean Asselborn, joined the EU Foreign Affairs Council in Brussels today for a joint session on security and defence issues. 

The session concluded with a decision to establish a short-term capacity military planning and conduct officer for the EU Military Staff in Brussels, who will be responsible, at the strategic level, for the operational planning and conduct of non-executive non-combatant military missions. 

Image: Jean Asselborn German minister of foreign affairs, Sigmar Gabriel, Margot Wallstrom from Sweden and Lubomir Zaoralek from the Czech Republic. © MAEE