Nato member states unveiled a series of defence initiatives on Tuesday aimed at strengthening weapons development, production and supply chains in response to security challenges posed by Russia and China.<\/p>\n
Speaking at the Nato Summit Defence Industry Forum (NSDIF) on the first day of this year\u2019s summit in Ankara, Turkey, Nato Secretary General Mark Rutte announced several new projects involving member states and defence contractors to bolster the alliance\u2019s advanced military capabilities.<\/p>\n
Among them was a multinational initiative on defence-critical raw materials involving 12 Nato member states: Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Greece, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden and Turkey.<\/p>\n
While not going into detail about the plans of the initiative, Rutte said that Nato\u2019s industrial base and supply chain must be \u201cresilient and secure\u201d for the alliance to remain ready and strong, meaning that Nato needs a stable supply of critical materials and components \u201cregardless of potential shocks or disruptions\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s what this new project is all about. Several allies are committed to working together to acquire, store, transport and manage stockpiles of defence critical materials, components and recycle products,\u201d said Rutte.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis project demonstrates allies\u2019 strong belief in a cooperative approach as the best way to increase security.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nato member states unveiled a series of defence initiatives on Tuesday aimed at strengthening weapons development, production and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6856,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[543,399,193,46,191,32,156,299,158,7,2280,20,466,71,188],"class_list":["post-6855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-ankara","tag-arctic","tag-beijing","tag-canada","tag-china","tag-germany","tag-iran","tag-mark-rutte","tag-middle-east","tag-nato","tag-north-korea","tag-russia","tag-turkey","tag-ukraine","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6855\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}