
Geoffrey van Leeuwen
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Director of the Private Office of the SG of NATO. RTs/likes are not necessarily endorsements.
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27-01-2013 04:55:58
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Excellent to meet with President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in Ankara today as we prepare the #NATOSummit next month to keep the Alliance strong. Türkiye 🇹🇷 is a staunch and capable Ally. We also discussed Ukraine, where there is a real window of opportunity for progress towards peace.



Great visit to #Norway & a particular pleasure to be in the High North to see some of 🇳🇴’s impressive capabilities in action. Thank you, Jonas Gahr Støre for the warm welcome. We discussed priorities for the upcoming #NATOsummit & Russia’s ongoing war of aggression against Ukraine



Always a pleasure to see Emmanuel Macron We talked about the upcoming #NATOSummit in The Hague, our plan to boost defence investment and ramp up industrial production, and our continued support for #Ukraine



🆕 Mark Rutte confirms new capability targets The targets are the basis for a new defence investment plan calling for Allies to invest 5% of GDP in defence, including 3.5% on core defence spending, as well as 1.5% of GDP per year on defence and security-related investment

Great day in Great Britain. Thanks to Keir Starmer for the warm welcome at No. 10, John Healey for the visit to Sheffield Sheffield Forgemasters RAF Waddington and Chatham House for hosting a great conversation on the upcoming #NATOSummit


During a meeting with 🇮🇹 Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni in Rome Mark Rutte Mark Rutte praised Italy’s contributions to Euro-Atlantic security and highlighted priorities for the upcoming #NATOsummit Learn more ↓

Great to be in #Sweden & meet Ulf Kristersson. We discussed preparations for the #NATOsummit. Sweden has only been a member of #NATO for 15 months, but it is already making crucial contributions across the Alliance, incl strengthening our posture in the High North & Baltic Region


Great to be in 🇨🇦 for the G7 summit. Thanks so much to Mark Carney for the warm welcome and good discussion on #NATO. Canada plays a key role in our Alliance. Looking forward to doing more together - investing more, producing more, and ensuring continued support to Ukraine.


Important G7 Summit session on Ukraine in Kananaskis 🇨🇦 today. As Russia’s terrible attacks against civilians continue, we’re all committed to continuing our support for Ukraine. As always, good to see Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський. Will meet again next week at the #NATOSummit.


“Given that NATO needs not only to defend itself but also to deter its adversaries, it must show that it can outproduce and outperform its rivals,” argues Mark Rutte. foreignaffairs.com/united-states/…






Great meeting with President Donald J. Trump today. We’re already delivering on decisions from the #NATOSummit in a major way, bringing together more spending, more production & more support to Ukraine. Russia’s brutality needs to stop - this new initiative will help deliver just and lasting peace

