NATO Secretary General with the President of Finland 🇫🇮 Alexander Stubb, 10 APR 2024

Joint press conference by NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg with Alexander Stubb, President of Finland, 10 April 2024.
🗣 | NATO Secretary General:
Good afternoon. President Stubb, dear Alex, it's great to see you here. Welcome to the NATO headquarters and congratulations on your election as President of Finland. And let me also congratulate you on the first anniversary of Finland as a full NATO Ally.
Your membership makes NATO stronger and Finland safer. Finland takes security and defence seriously. You have long made defence spending a priority and we are grateful for the fact that when Finland joined NATO, yet another NATO Ally is spending and more than 2% on defence. You have highly trained personnel and your advanced military capabilities bolster our deterrence and defence.
Finland's seamless integration into the NATO family and the NATO structures reflects decades of very close cooperation between Finland as a previous partner, before you became a full member. We will continue to work together to further strengthen our Alliance. We live in a more dangerous world, but NATO has become stronger, so we continue to protect and defend all Allies.
Today in our meeting we discussed Ukraine and the urgent need for more support, and reliable and predictable support for Ukraine, because the situation on the battlefield is difficult. Delays in funding are having direct consequences on the ground every day. Delays in delivery of air defences will allow Russian missiles to hit more targets, and delays in delivery of ammunition will allow Russia to press along the frontline.
Ukraine simply cannot wait. It needs air defences, ammunition and aid. Now.
Against all odds, the Ukrainians have already achieved so much. They can prevail, but they need our support.
NATO is actively working to ensure reliable and predictable security assistance to Ukraine now and for the long haul, so that Ukraine relies less on the voluntary contributions and more on NATO commitments. Less on short term offers on more on multiyear pledges. Moscow needs to understand that they cannot wait those out and, therefore, a package for Ukraine with predictable robust support is what we are working on now in NATO.
And I thank you, President, for Finland's strong support to step up the NATO support to Ukraine.
Let me also thank Finland and you for the fact that since the full fledge invasion of Ukraine, back in 2022, Finland has been a staunch supporter of Ukraine. You have provided around 2 billion euros in military aid since 2022, including 30 million euros to the Czech-led artillery initiative. I also welcome that just last week Finland signed a new 10-year security agreement with Kyiv. So we are grateful for your contributions to NATO's collective defence, to our shared security, and, not least, that Finland is a lead nation in providing support to Ukraine.
So once again, dear Alex, welcome, it's great to see you here.
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[@jeffsiegwart]

This is a very important alliance.

[@timmardon6161]

Very competent looking and sounding President of Finland.

[@chuckkottke]

Alexander Stubb was very well spoken about Finland's commitment to NATO, I am very glad that he is at the helm in Finland. 🇫🇮🇪🇺🇺🇸🇨🇦

[@user-ep3ed5jd7q]

Finland, welcome to NATO and God Bless You and your great Nation!

[@skrompf]

Well spoken gentleman from Finland!

[@luceya1985]

We appreciate you, 🇫🇮!

[@user-ec9mn2mz4m]

Congrats Finland❤❤❤❤!

[@Paralyzer]

Wow I’m impressed, I never heard of a Finnish politician who speaks English with almost no accent , and fluently if you compare to the previous president, . Most impressive

[@TheStormtrooper00]

Finland understands what is at stake and what will happen if russians are allowed to advance.God bless Finland and thanks for standing with Ukraine.

[@Reebus.LCU.]

🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🇫🇮 ❤

[@loredanaprodan8682]

Congratulations Finland 🇫🇮 ❤️ 💖 💕

[@123slither]

Welcome Finland into NATO. We are stronger together

[@pauletteaudrey6232]

Admirable, thank you Finland.

[@GT365fxk]

Well said Mr. President, now we are finally in nato together, stronger together. Brothers and sisters of the north 🇸🇪🇫🇮🇳🇴🇩🇰🇮🇸

[@OrcFromTheFog]

Respect and huge thanks to Finish people from Ukraine.

[@jeromejones920]

Stay United Stay Strong NATO 👍

[@LudmillaOlesnicky]

Thank you Finland, thank you NATO from USA for your support for Ukraine

[@AS532Cougar]

Highest respect for president Stubb - kitos 👍

[@Maxr-bq9pf]

We ❤ Nato..

[@sgladiadis]

Finland is awesome.!