NATO Secretary General - Doorstep statement at Defence Ministers Meeting, 12 OCT 2022

Doorstep statement by the NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg at the meetings of NATO Defence Ministers at NATO Headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, 12 October 2022.

🗣 | NATO Secretary General:

Good morning.

NATO Defence Ministers meet today and tomorrow at a pivotal moment for our security. Over the last weeks, we have seen the most serious escalation of the war since the invasion in February.

Russia is mobilising tens of thousands of new troops.

They are trying to illegally annex new Ukrainian lands and we have seen the indiscriminate strikes against Ukrainian cities. And then of course, we also have heard the veiled nuclear threats coming from Moscow. All of this makes this the most serious escalation since February.

Today we will meet with the Ukrainian Defence Minister, Minister Reznikov, and the message from the NATO Allies will be that we are steadfast in our support to Ukraine, that we are prepared for the long haul and that we will support them for as long as it takes.

There will be a meeting with Minister Reznikov in the US-led Contact Group for Ukraine and also dinner with NATO Ministers later on today, where we will address how to ramp up support for Ukraine. The top priority will be more air defence for Ukraine.

We will also address our deterrence and defence and how to replenish our stocks, because Allies have provided support to Ukraine by reducing NATO stocks, or ammunition, or weapons. This has been the right thing to do, but of course, we need to address how to refill those stocks. Therefore, I expect that the Ministers will agree to review our guidelines for stocks and also to engage more with industry.

NATO is a unique platform. We have the NATO Defence Planning Process; we have the capability targets; we have the work on standardisation and interoperability. All these are unique NATO tools that enable us to engage with industry and provide industry with the long-term demand they need to invest more in production capacity, so we can produce more weapons, more ammunition, more of the capabilities we need, both to ensure our own deterrence and defence, but also to continue to provide support to Ukraine.

Resilience will also be an issue that will be addressed.

The resilience of critical infrastructure, the importance of that has been demonstrated by the sabotage against the pipelines in the Baltic Sea. And then we will also have a meeting of the NATO Defence Ministers on a session where we will address our missions and operations, from Iraq to Kosovo.
There will be a meeting of NATO's Nuclear Planning Group. This is a routine, long-planned meeting, where we will address how to continue to ensure that NATO’s deterrent remains safe, secure and effective.

And with that, I am ready to take questions.


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[RCAFpolarexpress]

OUTSTANDING Gentleman M Jens Stoltenberg 👌👍😇

[darkazurr]

Who are russia to say that another country dont have the independence to join nato if thats what they want. Really

[XAUUSDGOLD]

We know you're supporting them... please support them military and more advanced weapons.... don't watch Ukrainian to be dying in numbers before

[uddhabameher]

Thank you very much for information given to me

[maiaalavidze]

Helping Ukraine is helping progress, Russia is the occupier!

[BC_Joshie]

Send in the boys, Russia weak easy win.

[pesheipezz]

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[christophercoenen]

The microphones keeps taking my eyes off mr stoltenberg ! 😬😬😬