NATO Secretary General at the 2024 NATO Youth Summit, 13 MAY 2024

Remarks by NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg at NATO’s 2024 Youth Summit: ‘Shaping Your Tomorrow’, 13 May 2024.
Speaking in front of an audience of young staff members at NATO Headquarters in Brussels, the Secretary General described security as fundamental to meeting major global challenges, from climate change to poverty alleviation. Mr Stoltenberg stressed the importance of continued defence investment given evolving security challenges, and underlined the enduring significance of NATO’s Article 5 collective security guarantee - underlining that an attack on one Ally would be regarded as an attack on all. The Secretary General also answered questions about NATO’s support to Ukraine, and its vital work with partners in the Indo-Pacific.
Admiral Rob Bauer, Chair of NATO’s Military Committee, also addressed the Youth Summit from Stockholm. He stressed the importance of Allies’ individual and collective capacity to resist armed attack, as set out in the Washington Treaty, the need to have a resilient mind-set and the ability to expect the unexpected.
This year’s Youth Summit is taking place in two locations - Miami and Stockholm - with virtual watch parties happening simultaneously across the Alliance and beyond, including in Kyiv.
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[@SKgeostrat]

Great words by the SG to inspire youths in the NATO sphere. Because of NATO, Europe has gone through its longest period in history without a major war, which has been THE biggest reason for the sucess of the EU and the North Atlantic Alliance. Bringing the war in Ukraine to an end and Russia to its senses is of course the big challenge before us, but the outcome is certain, as long as Europe keeps aiding Ukraine, without expecting the US do carry too much of the burden.

[@jovicabozovic1005]

P.S. from Montenegro❤❤❤

[@malgo6673]

Jens 🙂❤

[@ignominioussot5699]

I'd like to thank the Secretary General for taking time out for the youth. Keep up the good work!

[@AchyutChaudhary]

1 Question that no one’s been able to answer yet for me, is that albeit 🇸🇪 Sweden’s & 🇺🇦 Ukraine’s accessions are the focus, there are 2 more countries in Europe aspiring to join NATO according to the NATO website: 🇬🇪 Georgia (which got promised to join all the way back in 2008) as well as 🇧🇦 Bosnia & Herzegovina (which has even received a Membership Action Plan to join since either 2010 or 2018 according to different sources I read) - so what is the current status of their applications & when can we expect 🇬🇪 Georgia & 🇧🇦 Bosnia-Herzegovina to join (considering it’s been well over a decade since they’re in process)?

[@jojojojo4332]

all of these countries have Territorial issues that could make it highly impossible to join.

[@kristofferkellinsalmi]

I want Jens Stoltenberg in power forever! 💙

[@AchyutChaudhary]

I just have been wondering that whenever a new country joins the alliance & its flag has to be permanently installed outside the Headquarters building in Brussels, do they unplug all the existing poles from the ground, rearrange all 30+ existing flag poles, add 1 new pole & repave the ground from scratch whenever a new member joins the alliance so that they're all equidistant and in alphabetical order? or do they just leave gaps amongst the flagpoles for other European countries alphabetically already in case they may decide to join in the future?

[@AchyutChaudhary]

Perhaps my most-awaited question: in that the recent July 2023 Vilnius Summit of NATOinvited Ukrainian President Zelenskyy where the alliance agreed that it can join in the future - in response to Ukraine's decision to apply for NATO's membership months before that in September 2022, but what has confused me is that the 2008 Bucharest Summit of NATO in its declaration said that NATO allies agree that 🇺🇦 Ukraine (as well as 🇬🇪 Georgia) would "become members in the future" & that NATO "welcomes their aspirations to join NATO" - but that was some 14 years ago before Ukraine's President took the decision to submit an application to join NATO on behalf of his country in September 2022 - so if Ukraine didn't even apply to join NATO until 2022, how did NATO invite them as partners to the 2008 Bucharest Summit and issued statements welcoming their future memberships in NATO some 14 years earlier? (because I don't suspect NATO to have a time machine to travel 14 years ahead to know a country's intention to join NATO and then come back to the past!) ...even President Zelenskyy himself pointed to the examples of Finland & Sweden whilst submitting his country's application - both of whom only started to have discussions on membership after they both sent their applications in May 2022?

[@jeromejones920]

Stay Strong Stay United NATO 👍

[@commentatorJR]

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[@auliashandy4949]

Great Nato reputation at keep good defence and all purpose into it God blesd Nato

[@handle11141]

i would like to visit nato and film the campus

[@AchyutChaudhary]

If they chose to apply for membership, would NATO potentially be willing to accept Non-🇺🇳 UN-recognised ‘countries’ of Europe, such as: Abkhazia, South Ossetia, Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh), Transnistria (Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic), Northern Cyprus, Donetsk, Luhansk & 🇽🇰 Kosovo - if they ever apply to join?

[@MTMF.london]

A whole lot of the names you mentioned are not countries at all. Only Kosovo is recognized by UN (104+ countries). Donetsk and Luhansk are temporarily occupied territories within the Ukraine borders as recognized by all the international community (including Russia) since its independence in 1991.

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[@paulofernandes7086]

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[@AchyutChaudhary]

Would NATO consider allowing the 'Microstates' of Europe: 🇦🇩 Andorra, 🇲🇨 Monaco, 🇸🇲 San Marino, 🇻🇦 Vatican City (the Holy See), 🇲🇹 Malta & 🇱🇮Liechtenstein to join the alliance if they ever request so?

[@skerhnekia5762]

Vatican City is already part of NATO because Italy is a member.

[@MTMF.london]

NATO would probably consider as a formality but I doubt any of those microstates would care to join. First of all, they are esconced in the heart of Europe with nothing really of interest to any potential aggressors. They probably don't have any thing to contribute to NATO either - I don't think any of those even have an army to speak of.

[@kummer45]

Always I have respect for NATO. Europe must step up and help NATO more. United we are stronger.

[@sgedtodife7262]

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[@steliansilivestru3714]

Stay strong NATO, Slava Ucraini ❤️❤️ forța

[@AchyutChaudhary]

The NATO Charter lays out that the alliance may invite any 'European' countries to join the alliance, but given that the continent of Europe is vaguely divided from Asia culturally and doesn't have a proper Geographical boundary with various different interpretations, which countries are recognised by NATO to be in 'Europe'? In other words, I for one am aware that despite often being labelled as an Asian country, 🇹🇷 Turkey has been a member of the alliance since 1952, but what about countries like 🇷🇺Russia, 🇨🇾 Cyprus, 🇲🇹 Malta and the Ex-Soviet South-Caucasian countries of 🇦🇲 Armenia, 🇦🇿 Azerbaijan & 🇬🇪 Georgia - as the latter 3 are currently only politically connected with the rest of Europe via their memberships in the 🇪🇺 Council of Europe & the newly-established European Political Community - so are they in the region where they would qualify to join NATO if they chose to (especially as their territories fall above the Tropic of Cancer entirely for each of them)?

[@MTMF.london]

Turkey straddles both Asia and Europe. It made the historic choice of joing the freeworld and the Western Bloc after WWII, so I think it was more a political choice than geographical. Cyprus and Malta, together with Austria and Ireland, while fully EU members decided not to join NATO. Georgia are trying to join EU and NATO but the current political situation there is not helping them. I doubt Russia ever want to join NATO and it is trying really hard to discourage its ex-satellite states from joining NATO..

[@kristinaF54]

Hardest working man in NATO. I'd be surprised if he gets to sleep much with all the meetings and travel he has to do every day.

[@leontinaleal3251]

So proud to be in NATO 👏👏👏👏