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NATO Summit, Secretary Stoltenberg: "The Alliance is not dead". Johnson: "All for one"

December 4, 2019

At the opening of the London summit for seventy years of NATO, the general secretary Jens Stoltenberg denied the French president, Emmanuel Macron, which in recent days had called the Atlantic Alliance in a state of "brain death": "This is not the case – he said – NATO is the most successful alliance in history because we have been able to change more and more times when the world has changed ". Yesterday the US president Donald Trump had criticized the leader of the Elysee: "I think it was very offensive. I was very surprised, it was disrespectful".Stoltenberg instead looks to the future. In this light, he said he was optimistic that a solution would be found to the dispute with Turkey, which threatened to block NATO's plans to defend Poland and the Baltic countries if the Atlantic Alliance were not to recognize the terrorist threat posed by the Kurdish People's Protection Units (Ypg) in the north-east of Syria.

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Boris Johnson: "Solidarity and union"

The British premier Boris Johnson At the beginning of the meeting, it called on the members of the Atlantic Alliance, founded in 1949 to defend the West from the Soviet threat, to unity: NATO rediscovers the spirit of harmony that allowed it to be "a giant shield for 70 years of solidarity ".
During the meeting held in Watford, on the outskirts of London, the Tory and Eurosceptic Prime Minister said: "As long as we are united, no one can hope to defeat us and therefore no one will start a war". "If NATO has a motto, it is: one for all and all for one". And he cited article 5 as the "essential principle" of the Alliance: "If one of us is attacked, we will all go to his defense." Johnson also claimed the role of the United Kingdom as a key NATO partner and for the security of the Old Continent as well: "We spend over 2% of GDP on defense," he recalled, pointing to the target set for all allies and solicited with strength from the US of Donald Trump, and "we are the largest contributor among the European allies of the NATO Readiness Initiative for which we have offered an armored brigade, two hunting squads and six warships including a Royal Navy aircraft carrier".

Network video: Macron, Johnson and Trudeau make fun of Trump

On the sidelines of the London summit, a video published by the Canadian public television Cbc, is making people talk. In the video, released on social media, one sees Macron, Johnson, the Canadian premier Justin Trudeau and the Dutch Mark Rutte make fun of Donald Trump during the reception offered last night by Queen Elizabeth at Buckingham Palace. The name of Trump is never directly pronounced.

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In the video, Johnson is asked to ask Macron the reason for his delay, but the French president has no time to respond and is interrupted by a joke from Trudeau: "He's late because he had a 40-minute unscheduled press conference" , says the Canadian laughing, referring to yesterday's meetings of the US president with Macron and the press. The audio is no longer understandable, but then Trudeau insists: "You had to see the face of the staff, they were pervaded with their jaws on the ground". The curtain still lasts a few seconds, with the four leaders smiling amused.

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