On this occasion he reminded of the agreement that the participants achieved at the Warsaw Summit with regard to preservation of common values of all NATO member states, and the necessity of full commitment in order to implement them, providing safe environment in the world and implementation of principles of the collective security system.

In the context of the speech on NATO open door policy and acceptance of new member states to full-fledged membership NATO Secretary General and Chairman of the North-Atlantic Council Mr Jens Stoltenberg called for and urged the NATO member states which so far had not ratified the Accession Protocol for Montenegro to do so as soon as possible in order for Montenegro to become a full-fledged member by the following Spring Session of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly.

Speaking of operations of NATO forces in the world, Mr Jens Stoltenberg emphasised that they represented unique multinational brigades of defence nature, whose operations were proportional to the danger they were standing up against. He especially pointed out the fact that their goal was prevention and not provocation of conflict.

In the context of importance of providing a timely and strong defence through activities of the NATO forces, the NATO Secretary General dedicated a separate part of the speech to the issue of budget funds allocation for defence and addressed an appeal to member states to initiate dialogue in their national parliaments in that respect and point out the importance of the larger amount of allocations for the defence sector, especially bearing in mind that the increase of budget might directly reflect on activities of the NATO forces in standing up to security challenges in the world.