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He was emotional and of course he was in a friendly crowd everyone knows that congress is very much a supporter of nato a counterbalance to the trump white house which says disparaging things at least by tweet about nato so he was very comfortable and that will lead the twenty nine allies into a meeting and in a very good mood today this is something that it s really necessary because a big part of diplomacy is simply the on the aunts that they can create around the alliance and being in in washington of course they re on you know perhaps walking on eggshells sometimes around the trump white house which i might point out was deliberately not part of today the main day of the celebrations exactly so that president trump can t sort of. manufacture these arguments about transatlantic funding differences that have so often taken over meetings of nato all right terry trump is not going to be there we do have this good news that was sparked by the ....
Speech that was so well received in congress but is this now going to be a substantial meeting or is it really going to be more about the pomp and circumstance of the nato seventieth anniversary. you know we will hear from him stolzenberg later so we ll see if he comes out with any deliverables as they like to say at nato from these two meetings of the twenty nine foreign ministers plus north macedonia which has been invited as the next member of nato also to do it in these meetings and as he went into to kick off the day still timberg was asked questions by journalists about what he expected from the day he mentioned sort of the agenda items they will be talking about burden sharing which is the euphemism that nato uses to talk about how much the u.s. pays and how little the europeans pay they ll talk about that they will talk about counterterrorism measures nato has been pushed into doing more on counterterrorism by the united states of course the very long eighteen year war in afgha ....
Or were lines it has been for the mental to european security for freedom. we would not have the peaceful and prosperous europe we see today with out the soccer force and the commitment of not the states for your enduring support i thank you today. has long look to washington for leadership the president trump has questioned the value of the alliance he s also demanded that member states shoulder more of nato s financial burden stolzenberg said trump s words are having an effect of the years or reducing defense budgets all of us have stopped the cuts and all our allies have increased defense spending before they were cutting billions nodder adding billions . stoltenberg also warned of the threat posed by an increasingly a sort of russia including a military buildup in eastern europe. nato house no intention of deploying ....
Land based nuclear research in europe but nato will always take the necessary steps to provide credible and affective the terrorists. echoes of the cold war even as nato moves to confront a growing number of twenty first century threats. on g.w. as terry scholtz is covering that story for us and she joins us now from brussels so terry we just heard quite a lot of applause there for the nato secretary general speech to congress so how does that contributed to the mood for today s meeting and commemorations. i think that this first groundbreaking speech by a nato secretary general to both houses of congress probably set the meeting on a really confident and buoyant mood it was the best speech i ve ever seen young stolzenberg given i ve seen plenty of those he was extremely dynamic he was human ....