Joint media engagement by NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and the Minister of Defence of Germany, Boris Pistorius at the Flensburger Fahrzeugbau Gesellschaft, 20 June 2023.
🗣 | NATO Secretary General:
Dear Boris and Mr. Erichsen. It's a great honor and pleasure to be here today and I'm really impressed by what I have seen. To be here in Flensburg at the FFG, and to see how the German defence industry really is making a difference for Ukraine every day.
Because this company is the biggest provider of combat vehicles to Ukraine in Europe. And we know that what you are delivering is actually helping the Ukrainians to save lives and to regain territory. And to push back to the Russian aggression.
And when I see the competence, the ingenuity, the skills of this industry here in Flensburg, I'm really encouraged and I commend Germany for the big and important contributions you're making in so many different ways, but also by providing the refurbishment, the maintenance, and these different types of vehicles which are so important for Ukraine.
I thank the German defence industry in general and FFG in particular for what you are doing, but also the German government for financing all these efforts and all this support for Ukraine.
And we see the different vehicles, the mine [inaudible], we see the beach [inaudible] vehicle, we see the command post vehicle, and I was also told that are different air defence vehicles which are now produced and which are going to be delivered to Ukraine.
So I'm encouraged and I'm extremely honored to be able to be here and to see this with my own eyes. But it's a huge difference being in different meetings and being in favor of these kinds of support and actually see it myself and to see what this really is about.
Then I'll just say that the war in Ukraine is now a war of attrition and a war of attrition becomes a war of logistics. So the importance of having a strong defence industry, which is able to provide for the long haul, the equipment, the maintenance, the repair of different types of systems, including these vehicles we see here at FFG, just becomes even more important.
So if we are going to be prepared for the long haul. If we are going to ensure that President Putin is not able to wait us out, then we have to trust companies like the FFG and the German defence industry. So thank you once again for what you do, both the German government and the German defence industry.
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