Opening remarks
by NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg at the Meeting of the North Atlantic Council in Foreign Ministers’ Session
(As delivered)
So, welcome to all of you.
Welcome to this meeting of NATO Foreign Ministers.
This is the first ministerial meeting with Sweden taking its rightful place as a full member.
A clear demonstration that NATO’s door remains firmly open.
Today we will prepare for the Washington Summit in July.
At the summit, we’ll take forward our work to strengthen our deterrence and defence and ensure fair burden sharing.
We’ll bolster our support for Ukraine and we’ll deepen our cooperation with our partners in Indo Pacific as well as the European Union.
Today we'll also discuss how to address instability in our Southern neighbourhood and agree a new policy on Women, Peace and Security.
All of this contributes to our shared security which we have been safeguarding together successfully for 75 years.
This ends the public part of the meeting and I thank the media for joining us at the top of the meeting and the meeting continues in just a moment.
So thank you so much to the press.