BERLIN (Reuters) – In the debate on new weapons systems for Ukraine, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg is urging that the armaments already delivered can also be used.
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It is very important to supply ammunition for the systems that have already been delivered and to guarantee their maintenance, Stoltenberg said at a security conference in Berlin on Thursday. The Ukrainian army complains about a lack of ammunition and failing artillery systems, such as the 2000 self-propelled howitzers supplied by Germany and the Netherlands. Germany is one of the NATO countries that supplied the most weapons to Ukraine. The NATO Secretary General will also meet Chancellor Olaf Scholz in the afternoon.
Stoltenberg warned against European independence in defense policy. “I don’t believe in ‘Europe alone’, nor in ‘America alone’,” he said. Only NATO can guarantee security. He recalled that the EU states were only responsible for 20 percent of NATO’s defense spending. On the other hand, 80 percent of military spending in the transatlantic alliance comes from countries such as the US, Great Britain, Canada and Turkey.In the debate about the EU’s own intervention troops, he pointed out that NATO already has such units.
Stoltenberg again criticized the “dangerous dependency” on Russian gas. “This should prompt us to review our dependencies on other authoritarian states, not least China,” he said.
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