NATO Secretary General with representatives of 🇦🇺 🇯🇵 🇳🇿 🇰🇷, 05 APR 2023

Statement of the NATO Secretary General with representatives of Australia, New Zealand, Japan and South Korea, 5 April 2023.

🗣 | NATO Secretary General:

Ministers, Excellencies, it is really a great pleasure to welcome all of you here.
We highly value the partnership with the Indo-Pacific partners of NATO: Australia, New Zealand, South Korea and Japan.

In a more dangerous and unpredictable world, it is even more obvious that security is not regional, security is global.
What happens in your region, what happens in the Indo-Pacific matters for Europe.
And what happens in Europe matters for you.

I think the war in Ukraine demonstrates this clearly with its global ramifications.
And the fact that we also see that China and Russia are standing in closer together, makes it just even more important that we are standing together as partners.
NATO Allies and you as four highly valued partners.

So I welcome this opportunity to meet with you.
I also welcome the fact that last year was the first time ever the Heads of State and Government from your countries participated in a NATO summit.

And they are all invited again to the Summit in Vilnius, in July this year.

That will further strengthen our partnership and the way we can work together.

So I look forward to our meeting now and I look forward to you participating in the meeting with all, now thirty-one Ministers.
Because yesterday, we went from thirty to thirty-one Allies.
And then, soon also Sweden will join and then we are thirty-two.

So again, welcome. It is a great honour and pleasure to meet you to our pleasure to meet you.
Then we can continue. Thank you.

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[d-rot]

Keep up the stellar work. Never been more impressed by NATO than rn.

[bonjourtoi]

Merci pour tout ce que vous faites. Merci !

[SkyeRangerNick]

I appreciate the courtesy of the welcome being shared with the public.

[lucyebajo]

Great job 👍 to NATO allies another one member belongs to nato.Congrats 👍 Finland welcome to club members🎉.I hope soon as possible Sweden will be in NATO allies .God bless and protect this alliance always 🙏🙏😇😇

[thplanet]

So good to see a smile from all of the representatives when it was mentioned that NATO has a new member and now it is 31.
I hope soon it will be 32 and not soon after 33.
As the world starts to realise that our neighbours are our friends and our families we will have peace, love and harmony.

[fairman]

civilized peace loving nations, Imagine all the people living for today.

[asmeekens]

Maybe it's possible these countries also enjoy the NATO ❤❤

[danielmy]

South Korea goes with all the democratic countries !

[benw.]

NATO should add Japan, Australia, New Zealand, S. Korea

[touchedbynature]

In Strength We Stand, With Unity We Live.

[madenaraputra]

The NATO should be able to expand it's global partners to Argentina 🇦🇷 (Mar del Plata city) and partners for peace in Brazil 🇧🇷 (Sao Luiz city) because the Latin American region is close to the Atlantic Ocean region. Thank you NATO!!!

[stephenmcdonald]

We are stronger together. Nice to see these alliances being formed. Cheers from Canada.

[robertmiller]

Go New Zealand, Australia, South Korea and Japan! As a Kiwi I am a great fan of these 4 great countries! And our Minister of Foreign Affairs is a a great Person and extremely intelligent!

[pfefferle]

It's good to have friends around the world. We democratic nations must stand together united against the threat of dictatorship countries that can no longer be trusted to respect the international order.

[corwinsmith]

NATO + our Asian allies = unstoppable force! Hoorah!!!

[ΜελίναΚοντογιάννη-οψ]

Strong as never!, , congratulations!,

[luke]

I see no reason the alliance should be limited to nations proximate to the North Atlantic. This was a result of the time it was created. We live in a globalising world and free democracies and the free people that live in them, and that meet the standard for freedom set by the organisation should be welcome.

[TankoRanday-lfvk]

I think Japan south Korea Australia should join nato

[maxmeier]

it's always fun to see Jens Stoltenberg. he is such an honorable person!

[bombarapinats]

hopefully they will soon join NATO!!together we are strong to defend democracy.