北约候任秘书长斯托尔滕贝格在2014北约峰会上的讲话

Statement by the Secretary General designate

Jens Stoltenberg

05 September 2014

Thank you so much, Anders, thank you for the kind introduction.

It is really a great honour to be elected as the next Secretary General of NATO, this unique Alliance. And I will do my utmost to live up to that honour and to follow the great example which you, Anders, have set over the past five years.

Because you have shown strong leadership of the Alliance. And you have developed the Alliance into an even more capable organisation providing security, providing stability, and also building the bonds between Europe, United States, Canada – the transatlantic bonds. So we are all grateful for that and we thank you for the leadership you have shown for so many years in NATO.

As we all know, NATO is not just a security Alliance. It is a family of values which reaches across the Atlantic and defends almost one billion citizens of our Allied countries.

And we must continue to stand up for those values. This Summit has provided an important platform and an important direction for the future. We need to invest politically and financially into the Alliance.

And I look forward to taking up the post on the 1st of October. And I look forward to working with all 28 Allies to keep our Alliance strong into the future.

Thank you so much and I look forward to working together with all of you after the 1st October.