Doorstep statement by the NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg at the meetings of NATO Defence Ministers at NATO Headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, 14 February 2023.
🗣 | NATO Secretary General:
Good morning.
The NATO Defence Ministers will meet at a critical time for our security.
Next week we mark the first year of the terrible war in Ukraine, the full-fledged invasion by Russia against Ukraine.
And we see no signs that President Putin is preparing for peace. What we see is the opposite, he is preparing for more war, for new offensives and new attacks.
So it makes it even more important that
NATO Allies and partners provide more support to Ukraine. And we will meet later on today in the US-led Contact Group for Ukraine and address the urgent needs for increased support to Ukraine.
Not least the need to provide more ammunition and also how to ramp up production and strengthen our defence industry to be able to provide the necessary ammunition to Ukraine and also to replenish our own stocks.
We will also, at the Defence Ministerial Meeting, agree new long term guidelines for our defence planning to further strengthen our deterrence and defence. Something which is extremely important in a world which is more competitive and more dangerous. And when there is a full-fledged war going on in Europe
Allies will also start to discuss the new defence investment pledge. How to ensure we continue to invest more in defence.
And also address the protection of critical infrastructure, in particular undersea infrastructure off-shore infrastructure, because we have seen that these undersea cables, pipelines are vulnerable and its important that we coordinate more our efforts to protect the critical infrastructure.
We are all horrified by the terrible toll caused by the earthquakes in Türkiye.
NATO Allies are providing substantial support to Türkiye.
This support needs to continue and we need to stand in solidarity and sustain our support to Türkiye.
Then, I’m ready to take your questions.
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