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There's a packed house today. That's great.

Good afternoon, and welcome to this meeting of NATO defence ministers. And it is an honour for me to chair this meeting for the first time as Secretary General.

I am pleased that our close partners, Australia, Japan, New Zealand and the Republic of Korea are joining us in this format and in this format, it is for the first time. Of course, your leaders joined us at the NATO Summit in Washington this summer, and also at previous summits, we would have the leaders of the IP4 in the room. But again, it is so good that you are here in this format, on this Thursday in October, here at NATO headquarters.

This is another example of how NATO's both political, but I would like to say increasingly also practical cooperation with our friends in the Indo Pacific is getting stronger and stronger. China and other authoritarian regimes continue to fuel Russia's war of aggression and challenge Euro-Atlantic security. So it is essential that like-minded partners around the world continue to stand together in support of the rules based international order, including in support of Ukraine's self-defence. And in that context, NATO-EU cooperation is vital to meet our shared challenges.

That concludes the public part of this meeting, so I would like to thank the media for joining us, and then we will continue in just a minute.