Close
Back
Download NATO’s broadcast-quality video content free of charge
Log in
No account?
Forgot your password?
NATO MULTIMEDIA ACCOUNT
Access NATO’s broadcast-quality video content free of charge
Create an account
Check your inbox and enter verification code
We have sent a verification code to your email address.
.
Enter the code to verify your account. This code will expire in 30 minutes.
You have successfully created your account
From now on you can download videos from our website
Subscribe to our newsletter
If you would also like to subscribe to the newsletter and receive our latest updates, click on the button below.
Reset password
Enter the email address you registered with and we will send you a code to reset your password.
Reset password
We have sent a verification code to your email address.
Enter the code to verify your account. This code will expire in 30 minutes.
Create a new password
The password must be at least 12 characters long, no spaces, include upper/lowercase letters, numbers and symbols.
Your password has been updated
Click the button to return to the page you were on and log in with your new password.
Opening remarks
by NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg at the meeting of the North Atlantic Council at the level of Heads of State and/or Government | London, United Kingdom
04 December 2019
1 MIN READ
(As delivered)
Good morning.
And many thanks Prime Minister Johnson for hosting all of us. It’s really a good pleasure to be here.
The United Kingdom was NATO’s first home.
So it is fitting that we meet here to mark the 70th anniversary of our Alliance.
To celebrate our success.
And to ensure our Alliance remains fit for the future.
NATO is the most successful Alliance in history.
Because we have changed as the world has changed.
And in the last few years, we have implemented the biggest increase of our collective defence in a generation.
We have stepped up in the fight against terrorism.
And we are investing more in our defence.
Since 2016, European Allies and Canada have added 130 billion dollars to their defence budgets.
This is unprecedented.
It is making NATO stronger.
NATO remains the only platform where North America and Europe discuss, decide and take actions together every day.
To protect almost one billion people.
So whatever our differences, we will continue to unite around our core task.
To defend one another.
All for one and one for all.
And now I invite our host Prime Minister Johnson to take the floor.
So Boris, please you have the floor.
Related assets
Left to right: Xavier Bettel (Prime Minister, Luxembourg); US President Trump; Zoran Zaev (Prime Minister, North Macedonia); NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg
Left to right: US President Trump with Zoran Zaev (Prime Minister, North Macedonia) and NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg
Left to right: President Rumen Radev (Bulgaria) talking with Justin Trudeau (Prime Minister, Canada)
Left to right: Sophie Wilmes (Prime Minister, Belgium) with President Rumen Radev (Bulgaria) and Justin Trudeau (Prime Minister, Canada)
Left to right: President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (Turkey); Dominic Raab (Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs); US President Donald Trump; NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg Being photographed by the press and media
Left to right: Marjan Sarec (Prime Minister, Slovenia) and Pedro Sanchez Perez-Castejon (Prime Minister, Spain)
Left to right: Boris Johnson (UK Prime Minister); NATO Deputy Secretary General Mircea Geoana; Air Chief Marshal Sir Stuart Peach (Chairman of the NATO Military Committee); General Tod Wolters (Supreme Allied Commander Europe); General Andre Lanata (Supreme Allied Commander Transformation)
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg officially opens the meeting
NATO Secretary General Stoltenberg
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg officially opens the meeting
General View of the Meeting
General View of the Meeting
Left to right: US President Donald Trump with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and Boris Johnson (UK Prime Minister)
Opening remarks by NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg
Opening remarks by NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg
Left to right: Juri Ratas (Prime Minister of Estonia) with President Emmanuel Macron of France and German Chancellor Angela Merkel
Left to right: Zoran Zaev (Prime Minister, North Macedonia) with Edi Rama (Prime Minister of Albania) and Sophie Wilmes (Prime Minister of Belgium)
Left to right: Sophie Wilmes (Prime Minister of Belgium) with President Rumen Radev of Bulgaria and Justin Trudeau (Prime Minister of Canada)
Left to right: President Rumen Radev of Bulgaria with Justin Trudeau (Prime Minister of Canada) and Andrej Plenkovic (Prime Minister of Croatia)
Left to right: ANdrej Plenkovic (Prime Minister of Croatia) with President Milos Zeman of the Slvak Republic and Mette Frederiksen (Prime Minister of Denmark)
Opening remarks by Boris Johnson (UK Prime Minister)
Opening remarks by Boris Johnson (UK Prime Minister)
General View of the Meeting
Left to right: President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey; Dominic Raab (UK Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs); US President Donald Trump
Left to right: President Zuzana Caputova (Slovak Republic); Marjan Sarec (Prime Minister, Slovenia); Pedro Sanchez Perez-Castejon (Prime Minister, Spain)
Left to right: President Andrzej Duda (Poland); Antonio Costa (Prime Minister, Portugal); President Klaus Werner Iohannis (Romania)
Left to right: Erna Solberg (Prime Minister, Norway); President Andrzej Duda (Poland); Antonio Costa (Prime Minister, Portugal)
Left to right: Xavier Bettels (Prime Minister, Luxembourg); Dusko Markovic (Prime Minister, Montenegro); Mark Rutte (Prime Minister, The Netherlands)
Left to right: Giuseppe Conte (Prime Minister, Italy); President Egils Levits (Latvia); President Gitanas Nauseda (Lithuania)
Centre: Katrin Jakobsdottir (Prime Minister, Iceland) with Giuseppe Conte (Prime Minister, Italy)
Centre: German Chancellor Angela Merkel
Meeting of the North Atlantic Council at the level of Heads of State and Government
