For more than half a century, this conference has brought nations together from Europe and across the Atlantic to forge our common security.
The fundamental values we share - respect for human dignity, human rights, freedom, democracy and equality - have created common cause to act together in our shared interest.
The rules-based system we helped to develop has enabled global cooperation to protect those shared values.
Today as globalisation brings nations closer together than ever before, we face a host of new and growing threats that seek to undermine those rules and values.
As internal and external security become more and more entwined - with hostile networks no longer only rooted in state-based aggression and weapons designed not just to be deployed on the battlefield but through cyberspace - so our ability to keep our people safe depends ever more on working together.
That is reflected here today in the world’s largest gathering of its kind, with representatives of more than se
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