NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, Supreme Allied Commander Europe Alexus G. Grynkewich, Luxembourg’s Defence Minister Yuriko Backes, Italian Defence Minister Guido Crosetto, Hungarian Defence Minister Kristof Szalay-Bobrovniczky, Estonian Defence Minister Hanno Pevkur, Swedish Defence Minister Pal Jonson, British Secretary of State for Defence John Healey, North Macedonian Defence Minister Vlado Misajlovski, Portuguese Defence Minister Nuno Melo, Spanish Defence Minister Margarita Robles, Turkish Defence Minister Yasar Guler, Slovak Defence Minister Robert Kalinak, Estonian Defence Minister Hanno Pevkur, Finnish Defence Minister Antti Hakkanen, French Defence Minister Catherine Vautrin, Lithuanian Defence Minister Dovile Sakaliene, Polish Defence Minister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz and other delegates pose for an official photo during a meeting of NATO Defence Ministers at the Alliance headquarters in Brussels, Belgium October 15, 2025. REUTERS/Yves Herman