i'm going to pull out of that he was secretary of state antony blake and is holding a press conference right now at nato. h. q at us. take a lesson necessary to maintaining international peace and security together. we are sustaining and building on our support for ukraine. security mandatory in economic together we're sustaining and building on pressure on the kremlin and its enablers . including with unprecedented sanctions, together were bolstering the defense of nato itself, including by hardening our eastern flank. just over the past 48 hours, i've had an opportunity to meet with my nato counterparts. for the 1st time ever, foreign ministers from the united states. indo pacific allies, australia, japan, new zealand. the republic, korea participated as a group in nato ministerial ministers from georgia from finland from sweden and ukraine also took part as did the european union's high represented for foreign affairs and security policy, joseph or l i. in addition, i met with my counterparts from the g 7, the world's leading democratic economies. the participation of all of these a