NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg warned this Wednesday in Stockholm, Sweden, that disinvesting in the defense industry is equivalent to “ignoring the security” of the countries of the Atlantic Alliance.
“There are investors who have the mistaken idea that investing in this industry is unethical. […]but there is no lack of ethics in the defense of our countries and in supporting the Ukrainian military who are trying to defend their territory,” said Jens Stoltenberg during a speech at the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) forum on the defense industry. .
The Secretary General of NATO stressed that “without industry there is no defense, there is no security” for the populations of the countries that make up the political-military bloc, of which Portugal is one of the founding countries.
And addressing the investors who were listening to him in the audience, Jens Stoltenberg recalled that investing in this industry means continuing to “support Ukraine”, as well as NATO’s own “deterrence capacity” and its technological progress to be at the forefront in this area. .
The former secretary general of the military-political organization added that only by increasing investments in this area will it be possible to meet Ukraine’s ammunition procurement needs, as well as replenish the stocks of the 31 member states, depleted due to the shipment of ammunition shipments of artillery. to the Ukrainian troops.
Source: TSF
