One of the objectives of the summit will be to "advance NATO's role as a global security hub," Kupchan said.
It is scheduled to occur at around the same time its foes in the South hold a parliamentary election, and just over three weeks after a global nuclear security summit in Seoul.
On Friday, the White House will host 44 nations in a global health security summit.
In 2010, U.S. President Barack Obama hosted the first global nuclear security summit in Washington, at which he secured specific commitments from world leaders to help keep bomb-grade material out of terrorists' hands.
Sergei Lavrov was speaking minutes after his first meeting with his Ukrainian counterpart, Andrii Deshchytsia, at the margins of the global nuclear security summit in The Hague, from where my colleague Julian Borger has sent this report.
You report David Cameron as asserting at the global nuclear security summit in Washington that, along with the US, "Britain is very much giving the lead on nuclear security on nuclear sites, transport and materials" (World leaders meet to plan for 'all too real' nuclear doomsday scenario, 2 April).
But this week, the American presidential campaign crashed into a nuclear security summit meeting half a world away.
Page A6 NORTH KOREA'S WARNING As global leaders prepared to travel to Seoul for a nuclear security summit meeting, North Korea warned that any criticism of its nuclear weapons program would be considered a "declaration of war".
SEOUL, South Korea — As global leaders prepared to travel to Seoul for a nuclear security summit meeting, North Korea warned on Wednesday that any criticism of its nuclear weapons program would be considered a "declaration of war".
Afternoon: Cameron attends a nuclear security summit in the Hague.
He will attend a nuclear security summit meeting, but it will be a quick trip.
