i'm deeply honored to serve a secretary general of nato, the most successful political military alliance in history. but natural allies face sir your senators, and we have work to do at the washington summit, l. i set a clear course to worth a safer world for the 1000000000 people. be sure. now it is my job to ensure that we collectively implemented these positions and continue to at depth our alliance to a more complex world. all sorts to allies have their unique role to play and there's nothing we can not achieve to get. i have 3 priorities. i assure we have to get the abilities to protect against any sweat support ukraine is fighting back against russian aggression. and addressing the growing global challenges to you. oh, atlantic security. first on our military capabilities,

nato's core mission is to ensure our collect 50 turns in defense. over the past decade, we have made tremendous progress in ensuring we have to force isn't capabilities to deter and defends against any threats from any direction. but you must go further and faster to meet the enormous channels that we need. more data except forces are more robust, transatlantic defense industry, increased defense production capacity, greater investments and innovation, and secure supply chains. allies are already stepping up with plans to require thousands of air defense and artillery systems. many hundreds of modern aircraft, most the 5th generation has certified, as well as substantial high ends capabilities. split to tony match our capabilities

with our needs. we need significantly more defense spending. and i will work with that large to ensure that we invest enough in the right areas and that to be sure to, to build them for our collective defense equitably. we must each pay our fair share . my next priority is support for you, chris. i've traveled to ukraine several times in recent years to odessa keys, butcher going to young to in practice close to discussion board. we're a bit test 1st to have the book devotee of restaurants, board of aggression and debris for the off. you claims people in their fights for freedom supports and ukraine is the right thing to do that, but there's also an investment in our own security because and independence and democratic ukraine is 5 to for peace and stability and your and the cost of

supporting your plan is far, far lower than the cost we would face if we allow poor team to get his way. i know from personal experience with the dining or flight image 17 how the conflicts and ukraine is not contained to the front lines. it was a tragedy the to my country 10 years ago. well, that must never be repeated. after watching those so much l as agreed as a, as a port spec us for your print, including with a nature commands, a long term financial patch and it is virtual files to membership. i will work with that lies to ensure that we fully implement our decisions and that's we continue to bring ukraine effort closer to nature nature focus must remain obviously on the you a sense of security keeping our 1000000000 people safe. but the threats we face are

increasingly global. so therefore, i will deepen our partnerships with like minded nations near and far that share our feelings. your pre union is nato's unique and essential partner is potential to boost our corporation in many areas from supporting ukraine to counseling, hybrid sense. we will also increase our engagement with partners across the middle east, north africa, and this i held agents to foster stability in our subject enabled. we must do more to come to the threat of terrorism to our nations and our populations and fertile fields. we will enhance corporation with our in the pacific partners. so it supports for the shouts of military industry. china has become a decisive enabler of rush, child support and ukraine. china cannot continue to fuel the largest conflict to us

since the 2nd tools work without this infecting its interest and reputation. where she has also receive her support from the school here and around that allows it to sustain it's illegal for later this month, australia, japan, new sealants and south korea are participating in a nato defense ministerial for the 1st time i look forward to welcoming them. unfortunately, a shift to approach to our shared tensions. finally, i want to think old men and women in uniform surfing our outlines. you put into practice the defense of our freedoms every day. often, that's great risk for yourselves. thank you for your service. as i look forward to work and there's all of you and i cannot wait to get started and was that's. i'm ready to take your questions. thank you. secretary general. so we'll start with the

bbc please. doesn't b, o bbc, executive general. um, congratulations on your appointment. um, could i just ask you 2 questions? the 1st is, the law 2nd to general make clear that he supported the ukraine and its requests to use western supply. long range weapons like storm shadow attack ins. the hit military targets inside russia. what is your position that do you support? when you create a new this request for weston countries to lift those restrictions and what do you be asking western countries to do that? my 2nd question is you yourself talked about the need for significant more defense spending. i just wondered whether you think he's such a good example as the doctor prime minister. you spend it 10 years before you reach

2 percent. that was 10 years off to the nature allies matching causative, to agree the 2 percent go. what do you think you practice what you preach? no, and i'm happy that and that one's is now at 2 percent. um, obviously uh the twenty's through 24th of february 22022 was a big goal for many also for my country. and i'm very happy that you are now a 2 percent, but obviously you will have important to you or the children should have done this earlier than on your other question. so let's not forget ukraine is fighting a war of self defense. and that means that ukraine has the right to defend itself. and as we know, international law and according to an international law, these right does not ends at the border. a sort of means that supporting ukraine's rights to self defense means that it is also possible for them to strike legitimate

dockets on the aggressive territory. um, at the end, it's up to each ally to determine it's reports for your brain. that's not up to me . this is for the individual allies in during relationship with you, craig, and we also have to be cleared. it's not a single button. the single rep and alone will win the war. but obviously, this isn't important to you. well, i, i can understand 2 kinds request. i understand, so i'm, i'm michigan stilton burke on this and what he said before, but in the end that is after he's allied to decide what they want to do. and when i look at 2 particular elyse which are enforced here, they have now, for example, the united states and their leadership day have spent tens of thousands, tens of billions and dollars to support ukraine's rights to self defense. and let's be clear, your present likely will not exist as a country to day without to us support. ok, well go to n p r develop terry

a. hi, thanks over here, terry hall. it's nice to meet you and welcome to nato. it's cute thanks. i've covered for your the, for secretary general that i've covered and to be fair, all of them come in saying that they're going to improve the, the cooperation with the european union. maybe you have more, you experience that then the rest. so i'm interested in specifically how you're going to do this is going to help on military mobility. and on the capability targets you've got new defense plans, biggest revamp in decades. how are you going to help this tech work come up with these? um, increase number of troops that they've promised. what are you going to do specifically about production capability? you've been sick and nato's been saying for years inc. increased production capacity and they're still not there. you've got lower stocks. what are some specifics you're going to do to get nato to the war fighting capability that it's promising with these new operational plans? now for a good question, maybe 1st of start with the, with the nature you um,

and of course i'm good friends with all the senior leaders in you and i'm looking for it to work with them. and i will have a meeting so soon scheduled with the incoming presence, you being counsel and with it appears to be commission who will continue in that role. and of course, you are the main players and are welcome. i must say it use efforts to defense and i think there is a clear recognition both on the side of nature and on the european union that she boast value a more capable european defense, of course being complimentary tool and interoperable with nature. but that's also what i hear back from the research, and nobody wants spare enough structures or nobody wants a that's a duplication of what the nature or that he's doing. and so i think we're going to be on bump page on this. but clearly also do you have to now think about how to

implement all of these policies and i'm really looking forward to work with them in conjunction because at the entry is the same goal is to keep also this part of the world are safe on industry this is clearly for me, a priority because um, without a strong transatlantic defense industry, there can be no defense. that's, that's, that's clear in the past few years, let's say that's agreed that we have seen a marked increase in defense production across the lines. we are producing more shells, more ships and more missiles. then we have done for decades. so that's the positive . but we need to go further. we need to go faster than us for our own deterrence in defense, but also in support of ukraine. i think nato has the tools to help increase production aggregates, larger moms, for example. uh and or do you live for uh,

capabilities um and also to wash the summit as you know, are these do defense? industrial plants was a great and i will be delivering on the pledge in the coming months. so this is a clear priority, and i work with my team and with allies to make sure that's ramp up. the defense production that we look into, the reasons why sometimes it is difficult for companies to do that. and there might be this issue of more or longer term contracts, which i'm hearing and are other issues. and you probably have here, it's the same which we have to work on them and make sure there is no excuse for anyone and not to have a bigger defense production in overall size. then we have at the moment. so thank you. i'll go to reuters over there again, 6 years general, andrew gray from reuters over here. yes, i know. a simple question is ukraine winning the war against russia's invasion?

and what can you and need to allies do to change the reality on the battlefield? well, clearly ukraine is fighting this war of self defense. and as you know, i'm a, i'm, i'm absolutely impressed by what your brain is doing. they've shown a risk search. they've shown also with square fidgety uh they can push back the russian forces where you ask me about the situation now on the battlefield. clearly it's not easy. it's difficult. uh there is on the bottom hand to craig's army, as you know, holding on part of the course beach and the restaurant. but we also have seen vision for assist making some limits of gains on the battlefields this year. but the protest don't forget has been caustic, the recent estimates. i am guessing that probably your also of russian last has run us about a 1000 killed or wounded today. $1000.00 fields were wounded

a day and there is some of the total of $500.00, a 1000 already killed or wounded. and therefore, it is crucial that because of this on continuing impression on salt, that allows are providing the billions of the additional age. and as you know, and i see this will be a drum stein in a few weeks to address ukraine's most urgent battlefields needs and to coordinate the sort of support. okay, me over to that df. so many of with this to be taken on this. and you straight over this, meet the flopped into student cutting math, the student a new kind at least till we look civilian america. even though we're looking to know music, i know by the old baseball channel with a low think you've got to go through that on to him and without any signal filled out. and the 3, the fact is they do the 2 things. who i'm state of this scene of else to get that

is on the not to talk, you know, helped me market kind of ethically look forward to following up spell. the 1st good question is on, on whether the supports the ukraine will come to you both and we will be on site as well. as on the us talk, i'm absolutely a optimistic about this because everyone i speak with in america on the public concert on the democratic of the democrats science, but also hearing your understands dad's if rush out vote, even in the ukraine, if puts in, would get to what he wants a that that's vote ultimately mean ultimately mean that our security situation is in a much more difficult state. that's it means that table or game one quarter of a star tree and important parts of offers population extra. so this is the direct defense infected tooth, half it'll,

usually this is also about our failure was why we are helping in defending ukraine . i've worked with donald trump for 4 years and i've been in close talks. weighs couple of harris aren't expecting both very much. i'm absolutely confidence and on this issue they both see what is necessary and we're gonna take, for example, the president trump, thanks to him. we pushed up the defense spending and we, we sped off the defense spending a since to summit here in 2018 particularly. but also what you set on china is now very much taken on board. so i think by many of us, a couple of harris has a records as far as presidents and now as a candidate in defending americans failure. so i think on the us side it will be hard work and to make sure that the allstate, united, but at the end, i'm convinced that you all understand why this is necessary because our defense and our a, our failures aren't. let's take here. so this is very fundamental,

your other question was home a yes or so. and the clearly, as i set in my introductory remarks, and there has been the language in washington on ukraine and that their future place is in nature. of course, um, what the know 1st have to deal with is divorce and to make sure that the ukraine prove hills. and that you can prove deals as an independent software and democratic nation. that is not a priority. and i don't want to get into now what type of file space there are to nato membership because there are so many varieties here. and so many options and the field payments also depends, of course, on ukrainian leadership. and how does where he falls. okay, we'll go to a you can use agency is mutual. yeah. those

commercial and you said just if you're trading. thank you for the full russian presence and 14 recently presented his new nuclear doctoring and decrees the fresh called for use of the nuclear weapons against non nuclear states. clearly it is a transfer crane, but also for nato countries who are supporting ukraine. my question is, would that somehow impact uh, the support uh i need to provide to crane. and the 2nd part of the question, do consider the necessary to maybe adjust to the nuclear deterrence nato on. now i have thank you so much. well, of course be here, a regular scripts from the kremlin and it's true to put into a new kind of ethnic is reckless and they are responsible with at the same time. let me make absolutely clear. we do not see any evidence scripts of nuclear weapons being used. and that's what i want to say about this at this moment. because let

him talk about his nuclear arsenal. he once also to discuss his nuclear arsenal. i don't think we shouldn't. we should just acknowledge the fact that clearly there is no evidence threats of you with your weapons being used. and that is important and generally not just a new fear, but more generally, if you will vote, give in to put in threats that sort of set a precedent that using minutes he, for us, allows our country to get to what is months. and we cannot do that. okay, i'll go to an o. s this. thank you. congratulations. thank this. we are talking here. there's just been announced another era. all right, thank yes. and the kremlin said today that they do not expect any major policy change from nato's new secretary. very general, that's you. my question is, how are you going to surprise the kremlin?

well, 1st of all, let me say that there could have been on this particular issue has accident sources . and i, i could have said it's in a better rate than they did in, in depth press release. because i'm very much in of my work sense dolton broken off . here's a general obviously overtime you will see the difference, the emphasis on different issues. you will see a difference in style. that's unavoidable via different presence. but i think the agenda, he and the counsel set out uh, the decisions taken into washington stomachs. uh, they are all necessary to make sure that we cannot all, we need to date account or any sweats against natural territory. and we can, but also in the future we will be ready to do so. um um, but obviously overtime uh things will change because also the situation changes. and one of the issues i want for you to spend time on, as i said before, is this issue. and i noticed that there's also also very close to them. still some growth chart is a defense production industry and how to get them on board. so to make sure that

the big and a defense industry companies will open more and will have more ships of work. uh, 56 ships. uh, who do we think we can do weekends to produce what the needs in terms of ms. howell and all the other stuff we need that was nato's new secretary general farmer, dutch prime minister, mark reta, meeting the press on our very own terry shoals for the 1st time since taking office earlier today. in his speech, he set out the priorities for his tenure, and i want to examine those with our brussels bureau chief, alexandra, for nomine, who's at nato headquarters following the story for us. alexandra, what stood out to you as well. what stood out for me. um nicole is um the way how am i clued to presented himself addressing the press today. he demonstrated that he is somebody who is able and eager to identify

as to address had on the challenges that the alliance is facing. and of course, by doing so, he also showed that he saw the green horn. that is somebody who has experience, who knows what needs to be done to make sure of that nature is uh, working that nato allies can be re assured that he is the right man for the job. he mentioned 3 priorities for him, a stepping up support for ukraine, making sure of that said the alliance and its members will increase their defense spending to make sure that they are able to defend every inch of their territory. and of course, the fact is, the issue was he's there, it's priority to increase ads to deepen partnerships with, to partners across the world to be able to take on global challenges. however,

we have to say that it is also clear that all the challenges are big challenges for him and the whole of the alliance, and that they will be many issues and many problems at taking on those challenges. for instance, when we speak about setting up support for you for ukraine, or we have to add that this is the longer the war continues a difficult task route to himself. for instance, from mist hung we, a country uh that is still considered a strong, an ally, all thoughts protein to be able to opt out of any military age for support. so it will be interesting to see how he will be able to achieve all he's priorities, especially the, the, the goal of setting up support for you create

a mark. richard is from an e. u. countries breed assessor. was it, what do you think his appointment will mean for nato? is your relation? well, he told us today that she is determines to deepen the partnership between the you as a blog and the need to a badge a. it is also not an easy task. even though nato is saying that it's grades that the you are p and l s. and the european union, many members of the european e and my are also member of the alliance. so even though the alliance is saying it's grades that the ends now are ready to invest more uh, on their own defense, did they understand they, they need to increase the production of i'm a nation and weapons. they are a bits afraid or bit concerns. let me put it this way that

a s a the e u is thinking about increasing weapons production. that is something of that nature. so is trying to do as well. so there is some concern that they could be some pearl structures that the u as a blog and need to as a lives could take. both of them could be competing for the same resources. so i think as a repeating the good to understand that there is an urgent need to co ordinate those efforts. and toward closer together today he became the military alliances tops as civil serv and as such, what exactly is his new job? alexandra, while he's new job is to keep the family together. and that is how one of the experts that we've been speaking with could it because of course,

it is important to make sure that all the allies are on the same page when it comes to the big challenges that we have just mentioned, support for ukraine, implementing the rebel defense plans cooperating with partners outside of the tons of planting alliance. and you know, all the different members that 32 members of the alliance, they of course have different interests that have different perspectives. they come from different backgrounds for to keep for instance, it is important to put a strong focus on commenting terrorism and follow to it will be important to keep all of them together and on the same page. alexandra phenomena in brussels grade speaking to you. thank you so much for everything. and a quick reminder of our top story at the seller farmer does prime minister mark richard has taken over as nato's the secretary general diploma. prime minister assumes command multiple crises. he said he did not see an imminent threat of

moscow using nuclear weapons in response to native support for a frame. and the country's defense did not end as direction as often the news right now i'm looking for lee. thank you so much for your company. the, the, the

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