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by NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg at the ''NATO Talk around the Brandenburg Tor'' Conference
(As delivered)
So president Schmidt, congratulations with the strong election result and I was never able to obtain anything like that when I did election campaigns in Norway.
Ladies and gentlemen, it is really a great pleasure to see you all and to be here in Berlin today and to be able to participate in this very important forum. And I really feel that I’m among friends of NATO.
Twenty-nine years ago – almost to the day – a peaceful revolution brought down the Berlin Wall.
And the Brandenburger Tor ceased to be a Cold War symbol of division.