NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg encouraged Ukraine’s Western allies to step up their military support.
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg encouraged the Western military alliance to provide more weapons to Ukraine on Monday June 17.
“It may seem like a paradox, but the path to peace is through more arms to Ukraine,” the organization’s leader said in a speech at the Wilson Center, a think tank in Washington.
Mr. Stoltenberg, who will soon leave his post as NATO Secretary General, is visiting Washington to prepare for the Atlantic Alliance summit to be held in the American capital in July. He was to be received in the afternoon at the White House by President Joe Biden.
China in NATO’s sights
The NATO Secretary General also called on member countries to make China pay the price for its support of Russia.
“At some point – and unless China changes course – the Allies must impose a cost,” he said, stressing that Beijing “is fueling the largest armed conflict in Europe since the Second World War.” .
NATO, led by the United States, is increasingly criticizing the support for the Russian war effort provided by China and its companies, which supply components and equipment supporting the defense sector Russian. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky even accused China of preventing countries from participating in the Ukraine peace summit, which was held in Switzerland this weekend.
In his speech, Jens Stoltenberg emphasized the fact that NATO will take over Western military support for Ukraine until now led by Washington, as decided by NATO defense ministers last year. last week in Brussels. The head of NATO also assured that “more than 20 countries” had committed to increasing their military spending to 2% of their GDP, as the alliance has long demanded.
