"After 11 years of Croatia's membership of NATO, today for the first time we will have a video conference, for the first time in NATO's history," Grlic Radman said outside the ministry's offices.
The video conference on the coronavirus pandemic will also for the first time include NATO's newest, 30th member - North Macedonia.
"That speaks about NATO as a relevant factor and a political and military alliance," Grlic Radman underlined.
The foreign ministers will discuss improvements in the current situation and exchange experiences and information so that "the health crisis does not become a security crisis in a way," said Grlic Radman.
NATO is doing its part in assisting in the common fight against an invisible enemy, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said, noting the example of airlifts with medical equipment, medical donations from the USA and Turkey, and Germany offering to accommodate COVID-19 patients from France and Italy.
Allied forces across NATO are helping in curbing the pandemic by erecting field hospitals, transporting patients, disinfecting public areas and securing border crossings, said Stoltenberg.