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Good afternoon, and I'm very happy. As you know, the Indo-Pacific partners are very dear. They are here for the fourth time now at the NATO Summit, and we will now have a meeting.
And we have that relationship between NATO and the Indo-Pacific countries, Japan and the Republic of Korea, Australia and New Zealand, not because we want to extend NATO to the Indo-Pacific, but because we have friends in the Indo-Pacific.

And we, there is a lot of use and importance of making joint analysis of the security threats facing us here in the Euro-Atlantic, and what is happening in the Indo-Pacific, knowing that these two areas, these two theatres, are getting more and more interconnected. Look at what North Korea is now doing, basically helping the Russians in the war effort against Ukraine.

And then, of course, when it comes to the practical stuff. What we are really working on is, for example, on defence industrial cooperation. There's a lot happening. All these countries have a defence industrial base. And we are working together on joint procurement, on innovation, trying to also learn the latest from the war in Ukraine. When it comes to the use of drone technology, AI, et cetera. So, these are areas where we work together.

And I will, I really want to commend all four, New Zealand, Australia, Japan and the Republic of Korea for their support to Ukraine in various ways, financially, practically, that is really very important, and it means that it's not only NATO helping there.

We are really in this, in a relationship with countries from far from here, but still very dear and near to us. So, I really want to thank you for being here. We now will go into the meeting.