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NATO Secretary General - Doorstep statement at Defence Ministers Meeting, 12 FEB 2026

Doorstep statement by NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte ahead of the meetings of NATO Ministers of Defence in Brussels, 12 February 2026. 🗣 | NATO Secretary General: So, good morning to you all. And let me begin by saying that I am really looking forward to today’s meeting with the defence ministers. It will be very much about the implementation of what we decided in The Hague. Ramping up. Canada and Europe when it comes to defence spending, across the Alliance, making sure the defence industrial base is producing the output we need to be able to deter and defend ourselves. And obviously Ukraine, where you just heard the good news from John Healey, the UK Defence Secretary, Secretary of Defence, announcing half a billion pounds in air defence, both bilateral and [through] PURL, for Ukraine. And this is really important, because Ukraine as you know, they are really staunch, they are fighting back, but they are also still hit with missiles, etc., on their civilian infrastructure and innocent civilians. So this is important. But what you see overall is a picture of Europe and Canada stepping up, spending billions on defence, ramping up the defence industrial base, keeping Ukraine strong. So I think this is very important. We will be taking stock today, and then chart out the course towards our Summit in [Ankara]. I will take a few questions because we will see each other later today at the press conference. Sir? Transcript continues: https://www.nato.int/en/news-and-even... ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ SUBSCRIBE to this channel https://bit.ly/NATOsubscribe SUBSCRIBE to NATO News https://bit.ly/NATONewsSubscribe SUBSCRIBE to NATO History https://bit.ly/NATOHistorySubscribe Connect with NATO online: Visit the Official NATO Homepage: https://bit.ly/NATOhomepage Receive NATO updates via email: https://bit.ly/NATOemails Find NATO on FACEBOOK: https://bit.ly/NATOfacebook Follow @NATO on X/TWITTER: https://bit.ly/NATOtwitter Follow NATO on Instagram: https://bit.ly/NATOinstagram Find NATO on LinkedIn: https://bit.ly/NATOlinkedin Find NATO on Flickr: https://bit.ly/NATOflickr #NATO #OTAN #DefMin