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NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte:

Good morning. I want to thank our colleague from Türkiye, really, I can't thank you so much for making this possible and the hospitality, it's really amazing. We will have a very important meeting today in the run-up to the Summit in the Hague. We need to discuss how to make sure that NATO will be stronger. That means more defence spending; that means more defence industrial production. But also how to make sure that NATO is fair, that we equally distribute the burden amongst Allies, and that is only fair. But also a NATO which is more lethal, not by becoming offensive, but by being so strong that nobody will ever attack us, because they know, if they would, this defensive Alliance, if we will be attacked, our reaction will be devastating. That's what we'll discuss today, how to make sure that we make a success out of the Summit. It will be a splash of a NATO, which is standing there at the world stage stronger than ever. So again, thank you for being here and now it is my honour to give the floor to my colleague from Türkiye. Please, the floor is yours.

[Intervention by Türkiye’s Foreign Affairs Minister]

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte:

In the spirit of democracy. I have to ask the press gently to leave. But there will be press conferences after this meeting, no doubt, with many of us. So you will get a full readout.