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John This / AFPNATO leaders in The Hague agreed that the Defense was carried out at 5% of the economic production of their countries until 2025. year, in the following months of the US President of the US President Donald Trump.
In the statement, they said that they were united against the “profound security threat and challenges, especially the long-term threat of Russia to Russia in Euro-Atlantic security and lasting terrorist’s threat.”
The Summit of the Hague Sumita described several leaders as the Historical and Secretary General Mark Rutt, said decisions to include continued support for Ukraine while pushing peace.
Leaders also said they have confirmed their “Ironclad commitment to collective defense” – known as a guarantee of mutual safety whether any member came to the attack.
Dedication to raise the delivery of defense over 10 years includes at least 3.5% of the Member State on defense expenditures until 2035. years, plus up to 1.5% on a widely defined range of investments that is lightly related to security infrastructure.
“Too long, one ally, the United States, carried too many cargoes,” said Secretary General Mark Rutte before the start of the meeting, adding, “Today they change.”
The American president said it will be a “big victory for everything, I think. We will soon be equal, and that is the way it must be”.
However, especially Spain objected to the goal of 5% before the meeting. The Minister of Economy Carlos Cuerpo said that Madrid filed a “huge effort” to achieve a goal of 2.1%. “The discussion of the percentage is wrong,” he told the Spanish radio.
The Belgian government also expressed reserves, but Prime Minister Bart De Ver told reporters that if it would not be easy “3.5% within 10 years is a relative goal.”
The Hague Summit, who started the King of Villem-Aleksandra and the Queen of Maxim, so it stopped collecting Wednesday, collecting leaders on Wednesday, only two and a half hours, with a shorter statement eventually agreed on short communication.
Rutte told NATO leaders to meet at the “dangerous moment” and that the guarantee of mutual defense defense – “attack on one attack on everything, sends a strong message.”
As the leaders gathered for a traditional “family photo,” Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez seemed to stand with him at the end of the group.
Slovakia also raised concerns about the great campaign in defense implementation, but President Peter Pellegrini stated that Bratislava would not stand on the road.
AFPTrump’s visit to The Hague was his first trip to the NATO summit since 2019. and after that was to meet in Volodimir Znene in Ukraine.
However, the American president is more desperate to talk about the conflict in the Middle East of the war in Ukraine, when he talked to journalists on Wednesday.
“There are little difficulty, the green, cute guy,” Trump said. “I talked a lot with Putin … he helped Iran voluntarily. I said to do me a favor, help us in Russia, not Iran.”
In its final statement, NATO member states emphasized their support for Ukraine, “whose security contributes to our”, adding that direct contribution to Kijaya and its defense will be involved in the Assessment of the Federal Defense Consumer.
The American president has previously asked questions about the guarantee of mutual defense of the Alliance, known as Article five.
“There are a number of definitions of the five, you know that?” He told reporters at the Air Force One on Tuesday.
Mark Rutte later sought to find a concern about Trim comments, insisting that his European counterparts should take care of American commitment to Western Alliance and focusing on investment in defense and support of Ukraine.
Премијер УК-а Сир Кеир Стармер рекао је да је НАТО био као релевантан и важан сада као икада: “Живимо у врло испарљивом свету и данас се ради о јединству НАТО-а, показујући ту снагу. Већи смо пре него што смо били и пре него што смо били пре него што смо били пре него што смо били и раније.” We were stronger before we were before. “We were stronger before we were before.”
