We are funded by these companies, and morecambe including sparklight. The greatest town on earth is the place you call home. It is our home, too. Now we are facing our greatest challenge. That is why we are working to keep you connected. We i doing our part so it is easier to do yours. Announcer sparklight supports cspan, along with other television providers, giving you a front row seat to democracy. The secretary general of nato held a News Conference ahead of the nato summit in lithuania. He answered questions about negotiations with turkey, about sweden coming into the alliance. He says he and other nato leaders are still planning for sweden to join. His remarks are about 40 minutes. Good afternoon. The secretarygeneral will preview the Vilnius Summit, then take your questions. Sick attorney general . Secretarygeneral . Sec. Gen. Stoltenberg good afternoon. Nato heads of state and government will meet in vilnius next week, at a critical moment for our transatlantic security. Russia
Well, good morning, and thanks for coming out early on a monday morning. And thank you to joel for that lovely introduction. It is a real pleasure and an honor to open this conference, nato at 75, charting a new course that im very much looking for to your questions in the few minutes. For threequarters of a century nato has been a cornerstone of International Peace and security, United Nations in a collective commitment to mutual defense, and to our shared values. Natos Success Story really is remarkable, and its one that was by no means preordained. The fact that in 2024, 75 years after it was founded, the alliance is bigger, stronger, and more united speaks to the alliances adaptability. It speaks to natos resilience. But it also speaks to the commitment and the courage of millions of soldiers, sailors, aviators and operate together under the nato umbrella. But i think it also speaks to the attractiveness of natos core values, democracy, individual liberty, and the rule of law. Now,
Well, good morning, and thanks for coming out early on a monday morning. And thank you to joel for that lovely introduction. It is a real pleasure and an honor to open this conference, nato at 75, charting a new course that im very much looking for to your questions in the few minutes. For threequarters of a century nato has been a cornerstone of International Peace and security, United Nations in a collective commitment to mutual defense, and to our shared values. Natos Success Story really is remarkable, and its one that was by no means preordained. The fact that in 2024, 75 years after it was founded, the alliance is bigger, stronger, and more united speaks to the alliances adaptability. It speaks to natos resilience. But it also speaks to the commitment and the courage of millions of soldiers, sailors, aviators and operate together under the nato umbrella. But i think it also speaks to the attractiveness of natos core values, democracy, individual liberty, and the rule of law. Now,
Well, good morning, and thanks for coming out early on a monday morning. And thank you to joel for that lovely introduction. It is a real pleasure and an honor to open this conference, nato at 75, charting a new course that im very much looking for to your questions in the few minutes. For threequarters of a century nato has been a cornerstone of International Peace and security, United Nations in a collective commitment to mutual defense, and to our shared values. Natos Success Story really is remarkable, and its one that was by no means preordained. The fact that in 2024, 75 years after it was founded, the alliance is bigger, stronger, and more united speaks to the alliances adaptability. It speaks to natos resilience. But it also speaks to the commitment and the courage of millions of soldiers, sailors, aviators and operate together under the nato umbrella. But i think it also speaks to the attractiveness of natos core values, democracy, individual liberty, and the rule of law. Now,
Indeed, the most difficult task will be to convince everyone in nato, to have a common position on this, and here i want to focus specifically on some specific nato countries, such as hungary, maybe turkey, as it was when sweden joined, in the position, sweden, it is necessary to speed up this process for ukraine, which concerns the socalled invitation, ukrainian. The people may not be very familiar with these bureaucratic nato terms, what is an invitation . The invitation is the beginning of the joining process, actually, and the joining process is this the technical stage of how to make ukraine a member of the alliance. I specifically checked that certain countries had started accession negotiations. And, the final decision to accept these countries into the alliance, sometimes it took six to, it seems, eight months, in some cases, for these countries to become full members of nato. So, as the ambassadors have clearly said, we must somehow develop a special procedure. For ukraine, be