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NATO Secretary General meets with the French President On Wednesday 28 June 2023, the NATO Secretary General, Mr. Jens Stoltenberg, travelled to Paris, to meet with the President of the French Republic, Mr Emmanuel Macron. Click here to download the joint press statements by NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and French President Emmanuel Macron.

NATO Secretary General welcomes Estonian Prime Minister to NATO for talks on Vilnius Summit NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg welcomed Prime Minister of Estonia Kaja Kallas to NATO Headquarters on Wednesday (28 June 2023) for talks to prepare for the Vilnius Summit. Click here to download the joint press conference by NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and Prime Minister of Estonia Kaja Kallas. And here to download the video of their meeting.  The webstory is available here and the transcript here.

Secretary General co-hosts meeting of seven NATO Allies to prepare Vilnius Summit Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg joined the leaders of seven NATO Allies in The Hague on Tuesday (27 June 2023) to help prepare the Alliance’s Summit in Vilnius. The meeting was co-hosted with Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte, and included Prime Minister Edi Rama of Albania, Prime Minister Alexander De Croo of Belgium, President Gitanas Nausėda of Lithuania, Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre of Norway, President Andrzej Duda of Poland and President Klaus Iohannis of Romania. The Secretary General emphasized that the Summit will send a clear message of commitment to Ukraine. He thanked the Netherlands and other Allies present for providing critical support, including contributions to NATO’s Comprehensive Assistance Package and training Ukrainian pilots on F-16 jets. He said that the Vilnius Summit will agree a multi-year programme for Ukraine, and upgrade political ties, bringing Ukraine closer to its rightful place in NATO. Click here to download the joint press conference by NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and the leaders of seven NATO Allies. The Q&A session will be available as soon as possible under the same link.   B-ROLL of the arrivals of the leaders of seven NATO Allies and bilateral meeting between NATO Secreatry General and Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte are available here.  The webstory is available here and the transcript here.  Arctic security: patrolling NATO’s High North The Arctic region is the gateway to the North Atlantic. For NATO and its Allies, maintaining a strong presence here is vital to protect trade, transport and communication links between North America and Europe. As climate change causes the polar ice caps to melt and the sea levels to rise, new sea routes are beginning to emerge, which could present a threat to Euro-Atlantic security. Greenland is considered by scientists to be ground zero for climate change. Along with the Faroe Islands, it forms part of the Kingdom of Denmark and is therefore under Danish military protection. That protection falls to the Joint Arctic Command, or JACO, a Danish-led operational command with a central headquarters in Nuuk, Greenland’s capital. In this video, a NATO video producer joins the Danish Armed Forces in Greenland, at sea, in the air and on land, to discover more about how security might be affected in this region and learn about the capabilities and experience NATO Ally Denmark has in the North Atlantic area. Click here to download the video. You can also watch the video on YouTube. NATO Secretary General visits German and Lithuanian troops in Exercise Griffin Storm Visiting Pabrade, Lithuania, on Monday (26 June 2023), NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg met German and Lithuanian troops training together in Exercise Griffin Storm. He was joined by Lithuanian President Gitanas Nausėda and German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius. The exercise tested the rapid reinforcement of the German-led NATO battlegroup to brigade size, as agreed at NATO’s Madrid Summit in 2022.  Click here to download the joint press conference by NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, the President of Lithuania, Gitanas Nausėda and the German Minister of Defence Boris Pistorius. B-ROLL of exercise Griffin Storm is available here. The webstory is available here and the transcript here.  NATO Allied aircraft take to the skies during exercise Air Defender 23 Allied aircraft from 25 nations took to the skies as part of exercise Air Defender 23, the largest deployment exercise of air forces in NATO's history. Up to 10,000 participants from 25 NATO Allies and partners with 250 aircraft have convened in Germany to practise integrating air operations. Exercise Air Defender 23 enables Allied air forces to deliver coordinated air power in the event of a crisis. The exercise ran from 12 to 23 June. German A400Ms from Wunstorf Air Base in northern Germany have been flying across European airspace to provide strategic airlift and air-to-air refuelling. At Schleswig Air Base in northern Germany, different NATO fighter jets from Finland, Hungary, Türkiye, the United Kingdom and the United States launched alongside each other to practise joint air operations. Click here to download the b-roll that includes footage of American A-10s and American F-16s taking off and shots of the cockpit of a German A400M during an airlift mission. With soundbites from the squadron commander of the United States Air National Guard 122nd Fighter Squadron. Click here to dowload the b-roll that includes footage of German A400M aircraft on an air-to-air refuelling mission, shots of American C-130s and Romanian C-27J aircraft. With soundbites from the aircraft commander of the German Air Force A400M. Click here to download the b-roll that has been previously distributed which includes footage of Hellenic and US air force jets in flight and on the ground, as well as an interview with an officer from the United States Air National Guard 190th Fighter Squadron. Click here to download the photos from exercise Air Defender 23.