NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg welcomes Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer to the NATO Summit in Washington DC. Mr Stoltenberg said that he is glad to hear of Sir Keir's ambition to drive defence spending up to 2.5% of GDP. Report by Covellm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00Welcome to NATO. It's great to see you again, but this time for the first time at the NATO Summit
00:06and the first time as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. So congratulations on your election
00:11victory and it's great to see you here at NATO in your new position, so a few days after you
00:18took office. We're going to celebrate the 75th anniversary of our Alliance during our Summit,
00:25and the United Kingdom is one of the founding members of our Alliance, but not only that,
00:31the United Kingdom was one of the driving forces for the creation of NATO back in 1949.
00:39You are a staunch and important NATO ally. The United Kingdom spends more than 2% of GDP
00:44on defence, and I welcome your ambition to move to 2.5%. Thank you very much for those warm words
00:52and thank you for your congratulations. We are very pleased to be here so early on in the
00:57administration of the Labour government of 2024, reaffirming our unshakable support for NATO. We
01:03are very proud of the fact that we were a founding member of NATO and that if you go to Brussels to
01:10your headquarters and look at the original treaty, you see the signature of our Labour Secretary of
01:16that document.