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The

of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs,

, met on Wednesday January 19 at the White House with the United States Deputy National Security Adviser,

, to analyze the situation in Ukraine and study the possible responses of the NATO in the face of crisis.

The meeting took place a day after the Minister of Foreign Affairs, José Manuel Albares, held a meeting of about an hour with the US Secretary of State,

, in which the crisis unleashed by a possible Russian invasion of Ukraine was also the central theme.

The presence of Moreno Bau had not been transmitted to the media within the information released by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. His meeting with the National Security Council indicates that the coordination between Spain and the United States in the Ukraine crisis is very deep and detailed, which includes the analysis of different scenarios, the transfer of sensitive information and, possibly, agreements on the use of certain military units.

The National Security Council was created by President

in 1947, at the start of the Cold War, and is the nerve center of the US diplomatic, defense and intelligence apparatus.

Its mission is to coordinate the entire foreign security policy of the United States, which means directing the action of the Departments of State and Defense -and also some areas of the Treasury and Homeland Security-, the 16 espionage agencies it has the country and even certain NASA activities.

The powers of the Council vary according to each president and depending on the foreign policy of the moment.

The body answers directly to the president, without any type of control from Congress.

Those responsible for security

Currently the National Security Adviser is

, the

Democratic Party's foreign policy wunderkind and a close associate of

and Barack Obama, who played a key role in the 2014 Iran nuclear deal. who is 45 years old and apparently enjoys an excellent relationship with the president, Joe Biden, is the second youngest National Security adviser in history.

Finer, also 45, is another veteran of the Obama administration.

It was Secretary of State

's chief of staff -another character very close to Biden, who now holds the position of special ambassador for the fight against climate change-, who also put him in charge of the Office of Political Planning, a in charge of enormous influence, given that its role is to design the main lines of US foreign action.

The first director of that office is the most famous:

, who was the ideologue of US strategy in the Cold War.

In addition, on Thursday, January 18, the Secretary of State for Latin America and the Caribbean and Spanish in the World,

, and the director of the Western Hemisphere of the National Security Council,

, also held a meeting .

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