- Title: NATO working on more air defences for Ukraine, Stoltenberg says
- Date: 18th April 2024
- Summary: CAPRI, ITALY (APRIL 18, 2024) (AGENCY POOL) (SOUNDBITE) (English) NATO SECRETARY GENERAL, JENS STOLTENBERG, SAYING: ''We now have encouraging messages, signs from the U.S. Congress that they will vote on a package of 61 billion U.S. dollars for Ukraine in the coming days.'' VARIOUS OF STOLTENBERG, CANADIAN FOREIGN MINISTER MELANIE JOLY, JAPANESE FOREIGN MINISTER YOKO KAMIKAWA, TALKING U.S. SECRETARY OF STATE ANTONY BLINKEN, STOLTENBERG, JOLY, KAMIKAWA, TALKING (SOUNDBITE) (English) NATO SECRETARY GENERAL, JENS STOLTENBERG, SAYING: "We will focus today on air defence. There's an urgent critical need for more air defence. We're working actively on that in NATO now, ever since Foreign Minister (Dmytro) Kuleba attended our Foreign Ministerial meeting, just two weeks ago in Brussels. So we have stepped up. We have compiled data about the different air defence systems we have in NATO, and focused on the Patriot systems, and we are working with allies to ensure that they redeploy some other systems to Ukraine.'' PLACEHOLDER WITH UKRAINIAN FLAG BEING PLACED PLACEHOLDER WITH UKRAINIAN FLAG (SOUNDBITE) (English) NATO SECRETARY GENERAL, JENS STOLTENBERG, SAYING: ''So there is a need now to ensure that we have a more robust and institutionalized framework around the support for Ukraine, and we are discussing how we can establish that within the NATO framework in the near future, combined with a substantial multi-year financial pledge, because we need predictable, we need robust, we need long-term support to Ukraine to ensure that we fill the gaps and provide more support to Ukraine.'' VARIOUS OF KULEBA, STOLTENBERG, JOLY, KAMIKAWA, BLINKEN, ITALIAN FOREIGN MINISTER ANTONIO TAJANI, FRENCH FOREIGN MINISTER STEPHANE SEJOURNE, BRITISH FOREIGN SECRETARY DAVID CAMERON, GERMAN FOREIGN MINISTER, ANNALENA BAERBOCK POSING FOR FAMILY PHOTO (SOUNDBITE) (English) NATO SECRETARY GENERAL, JENS STOLTENBERG, SAYING: ''But tomorrow we will have a NATO-Ukraine Council meeting from the NATO headquarters in Brussels with President (Volodymyr) Zelenskiy. I spoke with him yesterday. He asked for a meeting on the NATO-Ukraine Council, and will be coming in tomorrow afternoon.'' KULEBA TALKING FOREIGN MINISTERS STANDING
- Embargoed: 2nd May 2024 17:53
- Keywords: CAPRI DMYTRO KULEBA FOREIGN MINISTERS G7 ITALY JENS STOLTENBERG NATO RUSSIA UKRAINE
- Location: CAPRI, ITALY
- City: CAPRI, ITALY
- Country: Italy
- Topics: Europe,G7,Government/Politics
- Reuters ID: LVA002588917042024RP1
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text: NATO is working to send more air defence systems to Ukraine, Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said on Thursday (April 18), adding that delays in providing such aid were harming Kyiv's efforts to resist Russia's attacks.
"We have compiled data about the different air defence systems we have in NATO and focused on the Patriot systems. And we are working with allies to ensure that they redeploy some of their systems to Ukraine," he told reporters on the sidelines of a meeting of G7 foreign ministers in Italy.
Stoltenberg said other defence systems might also be provided to Ukraine, including the NASALS surface-to-air missile system.
Stoltenberg said a meeting of the NATO-Ukraine Council would take place on Friday and that Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy was expected to participate virtually.
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