The main experience, I think, is that we have managed: people moving to Norway has made Norway richer, economically, but also our culture has become more rich in many ways. Jens Stoltenberg More Quotes by Jens Stoltenberg More Quotes From Jens Stoltenberg Turkey's a valued ally, important ally for NATO, not the least because of its strategic geographic location, bordering Syria and Iraq and close to Russia and the Black Sea. Jens Stoltenberg syria black important What NATO troops are doing in Afghanistan is to train, assist and advise Afghans, but they are actually doing the fighting. They are actually taking the responsibility for the security in their own country. And that is a great achievement, compared to what we saw just a few years ago, when NATO troops had to conduct the combat operations fighting the Taliban. Jens Stoltenberg fighting responsibility country But we have achieved at least two important things. Afghanistan is no longer a safe haven for international terrorists. We have a strong Afghan army, which is fighting the terrorists and Taliban. And the second thing is that they are able to do that without us being there to conduct the combat operations. Jens Stoltenberg army fighting strong We are deploying battle groups, battalions, which we consider necessary to convey a message of deterrence, credible deterrence, that if one NATO ally is attacked, it will trigger a whole response from the whole alliance. Jens Stoltenberg nato response battle Today we are all Egyptians. Jens Stoltenberg egyptian-revolution revolution today We have a high standard of living. ... In Norway, we've tripled our income since 1970. In the rest of western Europe, income has merely doubled. Jens Stoltenberg high-standards income europe The S-400, the Russian air defense system, it's not possible to integrate into the integrated NATO air defense and missile system, which is about sharing, you know, radar picture, about joint air policing, which is about shared capabilities. And Turkey has not asked for that. Jens Stoltenberg top-news The numbers have gone up like a rocket ship ... and they're going to be going up further, everybody in that room got along and they agreed to pay more and they agreed to pay it more quickly. Jens Stoltenberg top-news We are already seeing the effect of your strong focus on the importance of burden-sharing in the alliance, we agree that allies need to redouble their efforts to meet the pledge we all made in 2014 to invest more in our alliance. Jens Stoltenberg top-news Solidarity among allies is a key value for NATO, we defend one another. … The United Stateshas always stood by its European allies. Jens Stoltenberg politics After the UK decided to leave the European Union I think that NATO has become even more important as a platform for cooperation between Europe and North America but also defence and security cooperation between European NATO allies. Jens Stoltenberg world It is a very difficult and dangerous situation in Libya, we see fighting, we see turmoil. We see increased presence of (ISIS). Jens Stoltenberg world We are ready to help, but they have to request it – so we will not send in troops and we will not do any activities in Libya at all without a request from the Libyan government. Britain has provisionally offered to contribute 1,000 troops to an Italian-led training mission. Stoltenberg also condemned flyby of Russian warplanes in the Baltic Sea over a US Navy destroyer that took place Monday. He called Russia’s behavior. Jens Stoltenberg world The single most important thing we would like to see is that Afghanistan continue to implement reforms. Jens Stoltenberg world The more that we see Afghanistan is able to fight corruption, the easier it will be for me and other political leaders to mobilize the necessary political support. Jens Stoltenberg world If I started to go into all the elements of why we haven't been able to convene a meeting, then I think I would only make it even more difficult to convene one. Jens Stoltenberg world We all have to be ready to discuss difficult issues, issues where we disagree. Jens Stoltenberg world It will be a timely and significant contribution to NATO's deterrence, and collective defense. Jens Stoltenberg politics I will not speculate on the motives ... but this does not look like an accident and we have seen two of them. Jens Stoltenberg industrials I can confirm that we have seen a substantial build-up of Russian forces in Syria: air forces, air defences, but also ground troops in connection with the air base they have, and we also see an increased naval presence. Jens Stoltenberg industrials
