NATO publishes the Secretary General’s Annual Report for 2024
On Thursday (24 April 2025), the Secretary General’s Annual Report for 2024 was released, offering a concise overview of the Alliance’s main achievements over the past year.
The Secretary General’s Annual Report for 2024 reflects NATO’s focus on delivering on its core mission: ensuring the collective defence of Allies.
In his foreword, against the backdrop of the most dangerous security environment in generations, the Secretary General underlines that “In 2024, NATO continued to strengthen its collective deterrence and defence posture”, that the Alliance increased its high-readiness forces, and that “Allies continued to field robust, in-place and combat-capable forces along NATO’s eastern flank”. He emphasises NATO’s continued support for Ukraine as well as the Alliance’s work to boost the resilience of critical infrastructure and defence-critical supply chains.
While investments in defence grew significantly across the Alliance in 2024, he also notes the need to “accelerate our work to support a stronger, more resilient and innovative transatlantic defence industrial base.” Mr Rutte writes that his “priority as Secretary General is to turbocharge this adaptation so that NATO can become even stronger, more agile, and ready to credibly deter and defend against all threats to our security.”