(5 Jun 2025)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Brussels, Belgium – 5 June 2025
1. Wide of Canadian Defense Minister David McGuinty arriving
2. SOUNDBITE (English) David McGuinty, Canadian Defense Minister:
"Canada will invest in its defenses, rebuild its military capacities and meet the moment with purpose and with urgency. Our government is already very hard at work. There will be more to say very soon as we look to revisit and review our expenditures domestically, continental and internationally. We are under no illusions about the scale of the challenges ahead. Russia’s unprovoked and brutal war against Ukraine continues to destabilize the global security landscape. China’s growing ambitions and increasingly assertive behavior are eroding stability in the Indo-Pacific, and the erratic actions of regimes like North Korea and Iran are undermining the rules based order we all depend on. In the face of these growing threats, we must all do more. We will all do more. And I’m looking forward to those discussions with my counterparts here today."
3. McGuinty leaving
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Pål Jonson, Swedish Defense Minister:
"The last point I want to convey is that we’re having an important meeting also in regard to Ukraine and the NATO-Ukraine meeting that we are having as well. We are making an announcement today from Sweden that we’re dedicating 50 million euros also to the NSATU ( NATO Security Assistance and Training for Ukraine) fund and NATO cap as well, and we are very focused now on fronting our support to Ukraine so Ukraine can negotiate from a position of strength."
5. Cutaway security
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Pål Jonson, Swedish Defense Minister:
"NATO needs to achieve a strong ability to deter and defend. We take note of Russia right now being bogged down in and around Ukraine. It hasn’t been successful so far, but we also know after an armistice or a peace agreement, of course, Russia is gonna allocate more forces closer to our vicinity. Therefore, it’s extremely important that the alliance use these couple of years now when Russia is delimited by its force postures in and round Ukraine, and also that it has been weakened by the war, that we do an historic build-up on our armed forces. I do want to convey that this is an historic moment for Europe. If we are able to reach five percent by 2030 or 2032, we’re going to go up to a defence investment that as at the height of the Cold War, and it’s necessary for us to strengthen our ability to deter and defend and continue living in peace."
7. Jonson leaving
8. Latvian Defense Minister Andris Sprūds arriving
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Andris Sprūds, Latvian Defense Minister:
"We will be discussing important issues, of course the NATO capability targets. It has been a thorough process of discussion previously, defining those capabilities. Capabilities demonstrate, those targets demonstrate the common threat assessment that we realise what we are dealing with, that we need to increase our ability to act, ability to react to aggressive countries, including first of all of course Russia. Capability targets include a wide range of spectrum of different capabilities, starting from air defence, manoeuvrable formations, ammunition, the artillery system’s deep strikes as well, potentially in territory of adversary, of course also technologies."
10. Cutaway flags
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Andris Sprūds, Latvian Defense Minister:
12. Sprūds leaving
13. Camera cutaway
STORYLINE:
U.S. President Donald Trump and his NATO counterparts will meet on June 24-25 to agree to new military spending targets.
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