NATO Secretary General - Doorstep statement at Foreign Ministers Meeting, Bucharest 🇷🇴, 29 NOV 2022

Doorstep statement by NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg ahead of the Meeting of NATO Ministers of Foreign Affairs, Bucharest, Romania, 29 November 2022.

🗣 | NATO Secretary General:

Good afternoon.

Thank you Romania for hosting this foreign ministerial meeting in Bucharest today and tomorrow.

Romania is a committed and highly valued NATO Ally. And we meet when war is raging in Ukraine, a neighbour to Romania. So the foreign ministerial meeting will be a very timely and important meeting.

What we have seen since President Putin's brutal invasion of Ukraine is that President Putin is failing in Ukraine. He is responding with more brutality, attacking gas infrastructure, power lines, and trying to deprive the Ukrainians of water, electricity, lights and heating.

Therefore, we need to support Ukraine because what we see is that President Putin is trying to use winter as a weapon of war, which is inflicting a lot of suffering on the Ukrainian people.

NATO Allies are providing unprecedented support to Ukraine, and they will continue to provide unprecedented support to Ukraine, including by helping them to rebuild their gas and power infrastructure, of course also continue to deliver air defense systems.

We will meet with the Foreign Minister of Ukraine, Kuleba, tonight. We will also meet tomorrow with the foreign ministers of our close partners Georgia, Moldova and Bosnia and Herzegovina, expressing our support to them. And then we will also address our resilience of our critical infrastructure and the challenges that China is imposing to our security, to our values, and to our economy.

So this will be a very substantive foreign ministerial meeting and once again, many thanks to Romania for hosting all of us here in this magnificent place.

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[davidturnbull]

Doing a great job, secretary general. 💪🇬🇧🇺🇸

[fatimabeirao]

Jens Stoltenberg is a great General Secretary of OTAN . He is very pragmatic and a very determined person, and he also is very intelligent in his answers about the questions that are posed to him in his interviews .

[Chemical_Argentum]

Soviet tried to use winter a weapon of war against Finland in 1939. And look how well that went ;)

[sqweege]

Let’s get going NATO. Always reacting to Putin’s moves — it’s time to be much much much more proactive!

[HarryYoung]

He answered CGTN's (China's State Media) question like a pro. Jens is a stalwart defender of the values and principles of freedom, democracy and independence that underpin the NATO alliance. China should tremble at the thought of taking Taiwan.

[juarezjosedossantos]

It is very naive, to say the least, to think that the Kremlin "neo-czar" cannot appeal for the conflict to spread to the rest of the European continent, including the annexation of territories of the old and infamous Czarist Empire, since, in view of the quagmire in which he got himself in his nefarious war adventure in Ukraine, he is suffering more and more internal pressure and the socioeconomic situation of the Russian population in general is deteriorating daily.

[normdyer]

Please quickly send them whatever would best eliminate the wagner group and kadyrov group.

[leebonggggfhhj]

Help Ukraine or you will regret when it's too late...

[kabbasesay]

I'm sick and tired of this same rhetoric about Russia. Why can't NATO get involved