this hour-long event is hosted by carnegie europe. [inaudible conversations] >> ladies and gentlemen we have still a few seats and it would be fantastic if we could just fill it up completely. the morbid cheer we get from the crowd the better today. let me welcome you all to this event. nato and carnegie europe posts together today. they say that when you made once it's a coincidence. when you meet twice its luck. when he made three times it's a tradition and when you make four times you are an old couple. today marks the fourth time in five years that you mr. secretary-general have chosen and picked carnegie europe as the platform from which to address the foreign-policy and security policy in brussels and europe. so in the carnegie rasmussen relationship we have moved in to old couple territory which feels very good today. it sounds odd but only if you don't put it into perspective for an organization like ours that is 103 or so. it's always nice to know that the 65-year-old young lady called nato still wants to play with us and so

secretary-general have chosen to carnegie europe as the organization of the platform from which to address the foreign-policy and security policy in brussels in europe and the carnegie rasmussen relationship we have moved into old territory. it sounds out only if you don't put it into perspective for an organization like ours that is 130 or so. it's always nice to know that the 65-year-old young lady called nato still wants to play with us so it's great that is the nature of the old couple here today. more importantly we are proud that you've chosen us to give your farewell speech today with carnegie europe and you are doing this despite the fact that in the past europe has been critical and that is i think the definition of being an old couple that you can do that to each other and still work together. when you started your tenure at nato you gave your first public speech in brussels carnegie europe and that was almost the day five years ago. apart from afghanistan which of course was featured prominently at the time that the topic of your venice beach was the relationship of nato with ru

thanks tog word of carnegie europe for hosting this event.d, my very first speech as new secretary-general in september 2009 was also hosted by carnegie europe. so i feel that i have come full circle by delivering my last brussels speech as secretary general also hosted by the carnegie europe endowment. way, this also gives me sweet memories. actually, it was in this very heads of state and governments of the european on the economic framework for concluding negotiations with the applicant countries. denmark helped, the rotating president of the europe in union. as per mr. denmark, i hosted the dinner for heads of state and government. on we reached an agreement the economic framework for concluding these negotiations, which led to the historic decision at the eu summit in copenhagen on the 13th of december. decision to enlarge the european union. and actually the foundation was laid in this very room. this is my last month in office as nato secretary general. and i have to say, these past five years have been the busiest and most challenging

secretary-general, two years ago we were invited by carnegie europe to speak about nato and the arabring, and you said that you have -- and it was during the strikes against libya and the objective was to install democracy in libya. two years later it's no man's land and libya has destroyed as afghanistan, iraq, don't speak about yemen, sudan, and all these countries. don't you think that if you are going to intervene militarily or as to the other partners to make war against this so-called islamic state, don't you think that is going to make also jordan, libya and other countries? second question, mr. secretary-general. >> quickly, please. >> public opinions knows that the rain machine of instability in the area is because the international community didn't find a solution to the israeli/palestinian conflict, and it's not israeli/palestinian conflict. it's israeli/arab conflict, israeli/islam conflict. don't you think that nato, european union, united states of america, and eu member states exert pressures against israel so as to accept king abdullah plans for peace which was accept