“We are working with defense companies to provide Ukraine with weapons and equipment in preparation for a long war with Russia,” NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said.

And he revealed “his previous vision of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and the question of his country, Norway, joining this alliance in the past.”

He stated during a speech to participants in the summer camp of the youth wing of the Norwegian Workers’ Party on the Norwegian island of Utøya that “in the seventies of the last century, I thought that Norway should leave NATO as soon as possible. “, explaining that “later, in the 1980s, he changed his mind, but added that he had no intention of leading the Alliance.

Stoltenberg stressed that he “wanted to deal with social and economic issues and statistics in order to one day become the head of the central bank of Norway.”

At the beginning of 2022, the Norwegian parliament approved his appointment to this position (head of the Central Bank), but due to the situation around Ukraine, his powers as NATO Secretary General were extended.