NATO Secretary General with 🇺🇸 US Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken, 29 NOV 2022

Short remarks by the NATO Secretary General and the US Secretary of State, Antony J. Blinken, 29 November 2022, Bucharest, Romania.

🗣 | NATO Secretary General:

Secretary Blinken, dear Tony,
Welcome to the NATO foreign ministerial meeting here in Bucharest. It’s always a pleasure to meet with you and thank you so much for your personal commitment, support to NATO, to our transatlantic bond.
We are meeting in Romania and I think that it is very timely and important because Romania is a neighbour to Ukraine, and we see a war raging on there.
A war where President Putin is failing, but he's responding with more brutality, attacking Ukrainian cities, attacking critical infrastructure. And President Putin is now turning winter into a war or a weapon of aggression against the Ukrainian people.

And therefore we need to support Ukraine, and I'm extremely grateful for the strong support from the United States: military support, economic support, and everything you do to help the Ukrainians.
And I'm absolutely confident that the message from the meeting here today and tomorrow will be that NATO Allies will provide and continue to provide unprecedented support to Ukraine.
We need to stand together because it is in our security interest to ensure that President Putin doesn't win, because that will send the message that authoritarian leaders can get their way by using brutal military force.
We will also address the challenges that China poses to NATO, to our interests, to our security.
And of course we’ll also meet with Foreign Minister Kuleba from Ukraine, but also the foreign ministers from our close partners, Moldova, Georgia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina. So once again, welcome. It’s great to see you again.

🗣 | US Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken:

Yes thank you so much. Thank you for bringing us together here in Bucharest. I agree with you this meeting could not be more timely and it couldn't be in a better place for the reasons that you said. NATO is stronger and more united than at any time I can remember and I've been doing this for nearly 30 years. That's in no small measure thanks to the leadership of the Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, who has been remarkable in making sure that our Alliance stays together, united in purpose, united in action. We will be reaffirming our support for Ukraine as we go forward. We will be reaffirming our support and the work that we do doing to strengthen our own Alliance. Work that was critically important at the Madrid Summit and that will now be carrying over to Vilnius next year. We'll have two soon-to-be new members of the Alliance, Sweden and Finland, with us for these meetings today. That's important as well. But the fundamental principle that we have and that we brought to the Russian aggression against Ukraine, that we bring to other challenges, including challenges that China poses to our interests, is that we are doing it together, we're doing it united. That is NATO's greatest strength. It’s a strength the Secretary General has helped to nurture and it's a strength that we're going to see on display here over the next two days. Thank you.

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[janethompson]

Glory, Victory, and Peace to Ukraine 🇬🇧

[JimmiAlli]

Two total gentlemen, thank goodness for good people like this in the face of the barbarism of the little man from Russia.

[Bergen]

Great news for Ukraine and the world 👍

[tomfortner]

Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg is a remarkable leader!

[billkoji]

God bless Ukraine let us all keep supporting them we stand strong together not apart

[calmeida]

china announces today a closer partnership with russia regarding energy yet another reason for us to stop buying products produced in china we all have a duty to put pressure on our governments to stop importing from china,

[sallyjones]

When they walked on they both looked as if they'd just been having a right laugh about something

[yurimendez]

Increased air support does not solve the problem. The ONLY way to deter the criminal is to give the same back. You have no time to loose. The negotiation available is to give the criminal a call to let him know that Ukraine will be given the capability if he doesn't stop.

[erikmetzig]

I see secretary Blinken and I automatically hit like.

[michaelmazowiecki]

If Ukraine had the necessary anti missile systems both in quality and quantity then the Russian missile bombardment would not be doing so much damage. Nato needs to be far more proactive to force Russia out of Ukraine, including supplying Ukraine with missiles to take out Russian infrastructure.

[florinadrian]

Send modern tanks to Ukraine, the war must end as soon as possible.

[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.

[katlopez]

Come on America! Let's Bless this Great, Real Leader, who are fighting for all of us. Democracy has never threatened, as it is today. This 2 respectful leaders are keeping away Putin from our Territory, and Allies...