NATO is ready for the Second Corona wave. Journalists asks Stoltenberg while travelling by train

Ansgar Haase: Secretary General, given that a second Corona wave could come soon, when is the stockpile ready? Will it be ready by fall? And can you give us some figures, for example, how much money is planned for the fund and how much ventilators, how many masks . . . masks will be stored? Thank you.
Jens Stoltenberg: This is a flexible fund and a flexible stockpile, meaning that we have now agreed to establish it. Then we call on Allies to provide and some made the announcements already today. So I believe that some of these especially in-kind contributions will be available very soon. But exactly how big it will be? How . . . will depend on how much different, how many Alldies will contribute. So we are now creating the framework, the mechanisms, both for the fund and for the stockpile and Allies already at this meeting today made announcements, specific announcements about funding and about in-kind contributions. But the size, it’s too early to say, because that depends fully on the total amount of commitments from different NATO Allies.

Piers Cazalet: That’s all we have time for today. Thank you very much, everybody, for joining us. I pass back to the Secretary General for some final words.

Jens Stoltenberg: Thank you so much for joining me today, and stay safe and stay healthy. Thank you.
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