Remarks by NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg with US President Joe Biden at the start of the 2022 NATO Summit, 29 June 2022.

Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg welcomed US President Joe Biden to the NATO Summit in Madrid today. The Secretary General thanked President Biden for his “decisive leadership in strengthening the transatlantic bond” during Russia’s war on Ukraine, demonstrated by the President’s announcement to further increase US presence in Europe.

Mr Stoltenberg also thanked President Biden for the “unwavering support” provided by the United States to Ukraine, and said he looked forward to a historic and transformative summit.

🗣 | NATO Secretary General:

Thank you so much, President Biden, dear Joe.

It's really good to see you here in Madrid, so soon after we met in the White House in Washington.

And thank you for your personal leadership and the US commitment to NATO, to European security, demonstrated by the announcements you’ve just made to further increase US presence in Europe.

And this really demonstrates your decisive leadership in strengthening the transatlantic bond.

And we also see that in the unwavering support from you and from the United States to Ukraine.

That will be a main issue at the Summit today. We'll meet with President Zelenskyy, he will address the Summit.

And as you said, this will be an historic Summit. It will be a transformative Summit, where we'll make decisions that will actually change this Alliance for many years to come.

We will agree a new Strategic Concept, the blueprint for NATO into the future, more dangerous world, a more competitive world.

We will agree the biggest overhaul of our collective defence and deterrence since the end of the Cold War. And US is of course very much part of that.

And then, we will invite Finland and Sweden to join NATO. And that demonstrates that NATO’s door is open.
It demonstrates that President Putin has not succeeded in closing NATO’s door.

He's getting the opposite of what he wants.
He wants less NATO. President Putin is getting more NATO while Finland Sweden are joining our Alliance.

We will agree a Comprehensive Assistance Package for Ukraine.

And then I also welcome the fact that we are able now to state that actually European Allies and Canada are stepping up with more troops, higher readiness, and also increase defence spending.
Figures show that they have added 350 billion extra US dollars for defence since we made the pledge back in 2014.

So, all in all, this demonstrates unity and the strength of our Alliance.

Thank you.

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