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Good morning.
And Marco, thank you so much for having this opportunity.
I really want to say, we all admire what you and the President are doing, and the whole team are doing, you have been working so hard over the last couple of days in the Middle East.
You are really making progress. I think this is important.
This shows American leadership, not only in Ukraine, where it was the new American administration, breaking the deadlock under the leadership of President Trump, but also now when it comes to the Middle East, and of course, all the other issues in the world, we collectively have to make sure, stay stable.
And we need American leadership, you're providing that.
Today will very much be about the Summit in the Hague, and it is, first of all ramping up defence spending in Canada and Europe, nations are committed to that.
We will have a debate on all the details.
But this is really important because we have the ongoing Russian threat, we have the Chinese build up massively at the moment, militarily, and of course, the terrorism, the terrorist threat, which is still ongoing.
But we also have to ramp up the defence industry, because with only money, we are not there.
We also need the defence industrial output to make sure that we can fight off any threat to NATO, to NATO territory.
And of course, we will discuss Ukraine, how to make sure that we bring Ukraine to a lasting and durable peace.
Again, welcome and thank you for your personal leadership. All of it, Marco.