Sir Keir Starmer welcomes NATO's new secretary-general Mark Rutte to 10 Downing Street for talks with Volodymyr Zelenskyy. The prime minister tells the NATO chief that he and Mr Zelenskyy have been "meeting all morning, going through the plan for victory". Mr Rutte says "this is about Ukraine, but it's also about the defence of the West and how we stay safe". Report by Blairm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00Well, Secretary General, let me welcome you here.
00:02It's so good to have you here so early on in your tenure.
00:07And one of the proudest things for us as a Labour Party
00:10is being a family member of NATO.
00:13And so to be able to welcome you here is great.
00:15And to do it whilst we've got President Zelensky here.
00:18We've been meeting all morning, going
00:20through the plan for victory.
00:23So to have this opportunity to join up and have
00:28a trilateral meeting is very special and very important
00:31to us.
00:31So thank you very much.
00:32And we'll go through in a moment.
00:34Yeah.
00:34Discussion.
00:35But you're very, very, just days in, I think, isn't it?
00:38I'm 10 days in.
00:39But you're saying you were 100 days in,
00:41you were 1,000 days in the Presidency, almost.
00:45But I'm so happy that we have this meeting with you.
00:47Yep.
00:48And I was visiting in Rotterdam last week.
00:50Yeah.
00:51Yeah.
00:51And I think the support of some of that.
00:53Some practical stuff done.
00:54And go through.
00:56That's a good one.
00:57I think what we've also made clear today,
00:59this is about Ukraine.
01:01But it's also about the defense of the West,
01:04how we stay safe as a response.
01:06And I think we need to continue to make that point, which
01:09is this is, of course, about Ukraine's sovereignty.
01:12But it is also about the rest of us as well.
01:14Exactly.
01:15You know, it matters way beyond.