NATO Secretary General with 🇺🇸 US Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken, 01 JUN 2023

Short remarks by the NATO Secretary General, Jens Stoltenberg and the US Secretary of State, Antony J. Blinken, 1 June 2023, Oslo, Norway.

🗣 | NATO Secretary General:

Secretary Blinken,

Dear Tony,

Welcome to Oslo, welcome to this NATO Foreign Ministerial meeting.

We have many issues to discuss but let me first of all thank you for your personal commitment, your personal leadership, and, not least, everything the United States does to strengthen the transatlantic bond and to support Ukraine.

And our support to Ukraine will be one of the main issues to be addressed at the meeting today.

How to sustain and step up support but also how to address Ukraine's membership aspirations for NATO.

And I'd like to underline that all Allies agree that NATO's door is open, as we demonstrated with Finland and Sweden.

And all Allies agree that Ukraine will become a member of the Alliance.

And all Allies agree that it is for NATO Allies and Ukraine to decide when the time is right.

It is not for Moscow to decide on NATO enlargement.

Then we also understand that the most urgent and important task now is to ensure that Ukraine prevails, because it's only with an independent, sovereign Ukraine in Europe, that the membership issue is something to address at all.

And then we also understand that this will be an issue that we need to address in one way or another when the war ends.

We'll also discuss how to strengthen our deterrence and defence, including invest more.

We should regard the 2% not as a ceiling but as a minimum floor for our defence investments.

And then we will address how to further strengthen our partnership with the Asia-Pacific partners.

And then of course, address also how we can continue to make progress on the ratification of Sweden, to have Sweden as a full-fledged member.

So once again, Tony, it's good to have you here in the City Hall of Oslo and to have you in Oslo. Please.

Thank you.

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- Love❤ to Ukraine🇺🇦
- Love❤ to Sweden🇸🇪
- Love❤ to United States Of America🇺🇲
- Love❤ to Türkye🇹🇷
- Love❤ to Kosovo🇽🇰
- Love to Georgia🇬🇪

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Putin essendo sociopolitico ci porterà alla terza guerra mondiale questo accadrà quando gli ucraini riconquisteranno le quattro regioni annesse alla Russia noi ci possiamo solo organizzare a non farci trovare impreparati quindi armarsi all’ennesima potenza se no siamo fritti