Ukraine Contact Group meeting inside NATO HQ

(12 Oct 2022) RESTRICTION SUMMARY: ASSOCIATED PRESS Brussels - 12 October 2022 1. Mid of Antti Kaikkonen, Finnish Minister for Defense, Jens Stoltenberg, NATO Secretary General, and Peter Hultqvist, Swedish Minister for Defense, chatting together 2. Close of Kaikkonen before the meeting 3. Mid of Hulusi Hakar, Turkish Minister of Defense, greeting Stoltenberg and Hultqvist 4. Hakar, Kaikkonen, Stoltenberg, Hultqvist taking a group photo 5. Various of Lloyd J. Austin III, U.S. Secretary of Defense, greeting Hakar, and Stoltenberg 6. Mid of Hakar chatting with Oleksii Reznikov, Ukrainian Minister of Defense 7. Wide of Stoltenberg chatting with J. Austin III 8. Mid of J. Austin III before the state of meeting 9. Various of of representatives during the meeting, including U.S. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. A. Milley, J. Austin III, and Reznikov during meeting 10. Pan left of various representatives during the meeting 11. Various of Reznikov and Stoltenberg during the meeting 12. Wide of representatives during the meeting 13. Various of J. Austin III during his statement, and Reznikov 14. Media 15. Mid of J. Austin III during his statement 16. Close of Christine Lambrecht, German Defense Minister, during the meeting 17. Mid of French representative during the meeting 18. Various of representatives during the meeting, including wide of J. Austin III during his statement 19. Wide of meeting room STORYLINE: NATO defense ministers met Wednesday as the alliance's member countries face the twin challenges of struggling to make and supply weapons to Ukraine while protecting vital European infrastructure like pipelines or cables that Russia might want to sabotage in retaliation. Officials at the meeting included: Finnish Minister for Defense Antti Kaikkonen, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, Swedish Minister for Defense Peter Hultqvist, Ukrainian Minister of Defense Oleksii Reznikov, and U.S. Secretary of defense Lloyd J. Austin III, who made a statement. In the almost eight months since President Vladimir Putin ordered his troops into Ukraine, the 30-nation military alliance has been treading a fine line, as an organization, providing only non-lethal support and defending its own territory to avoid being dragged into a wider war with a nuclear-armed Russia. Individual allies though continue to pour in weapons and ammunition, including armored vehicles and air defense or anti-tank systems. They’re also training Ukrainian troops, building on the lessons NATO has taught Ukraine’s military instructors since Russia annexed the Crimean Peninsula in 2014. But as the Russian missile strikes across Ukraine this week demonstrated, this is not enough. NATO defense ministers were taking stock Wednesday of the supply effort so far and to debate ways to encourage the defense industry to ramp up production in short order. At the same time, national military stocks and arsenals are being depleted. Some countries are growing reluctant to provide Ukraine with more when they are no longer entirely sure that they can protect their own territories and airspace. =========================================================== Clients are reminded: (i) to check the terms of their licence agreements for use of content outside news programming and that further advice and assistance can be obtained from the AP Archive on: Tel +44 (0) 20 7482 7482 Email: info@aparchive.com (ii) they should check with the applicable collecting society in their Territory regarding the clearance of any sound recording or performance included within the AP Television News service Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter: https://twitter.com/AP_Archive Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/APArchives ​​ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/APNews/ You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/883ca908b54f438d9038b926e36c6cb2