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So, good morning. I really want to welcome Pete Hegseth here to NATO again to the Defence Ministers meeting. This will be an important meeting, because we had a successful Summit in The Hague, and there is now much more cash on the table. There is firepower coming out of our defence industry, which is so important, and we are doing everything collectively to keep Ukraine strong.

But I particularly want to thank President Trump and you personally for your leadership and your whole team for the fact that NATO is now much stronger, more lethal, but is also fairer, because we know that since President Eisenhower, there was this constant irritant that yes, NATO was there, the US was committed, but also had a clear expectation that EU Allies and Canada would step up, and we took that historic decision in The Hague thanks to your leadership - equalising defence spending on this side of the pond and in Canada with what the US is spending. And I think that's extremely important.

And I also want to thank President Trump and you personally again, and of course, the whole American leadership team for the fact that, when it comes to Ukraine, you decided to again make sure that they have what they need from the US paid for by Allies, and that programme is now running. 2 billion committed so far, and today, I expect many new announcements of countries who will participate. So, all in all, we are making great progress. Again - thank you so much Pete for everything you are doing.