Mr. Chair, if I may, national security today is multi-dimensional in nature. It incorporates a range of traditional and non-traditional perspectives. It's about more than military, territorial integrity and traditional concepts of national sovereignty. It's also about threats to economic security, environmental security, and human security as societies and democratic institutions become targets of threats. We need to be protected and defended. For example, governments also have to consider how to best prepare for biological weapons and their use against not just military targets. Should terrorism take the form of a health pandemic, for example, other countries would face the same situation as us, thus the need to be prepared and have ready access to medication if we need it.
On February 23rd, 2017. See this statement in context.