NATO sees bigger defense budgets

World June 13, 2016 19:21

brussels - NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg see after years of declining defense budgets finally a turnaround. Last year gave NATO countries plus Canada 0.6% more on defense this year will likely be 1.5% or $ 3 billion.

He said yesterday on the eve of the last ministerial meeting before the big NATO summit in early July in Warsaw. 'But we're not there yet, many countries are still not on the 2% target. 'The Netherlands is there with 1.13% of gross domestic product too.

Ministers should take decisions in the coming weeks on the deployment of AWACS radar planes over Turkey in the fight against IS, more ships to the Mediterranean to the pass to cut off the smugglers in Libya and the conditions under which four battalions of 1,000 men in the three Baltic countries and Poland are stationed as a counterweight to the Russian threat.

NATO would like a consultation with Moscow in the NATO-Russia Council before the Summit in Warsaw, but the Russians have said no definite date. This is especially the still unsatisfactory situation in eastern Ukraine on the agenda.

Also new is that the neutral countries Sweden and Finland both dinner to attend the summit in Warsaw today in Brussels. In both countries, public opinion turns toward NATO membership.

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