NATO members agree on strengthening defense capabilities: ‘We need to guarantee security …’
NATO Member States agreed on new ambitious goals on the strengthening of defense capabilities, including air defense, aircraft, tanks, drones, logistics, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte said after the completion of the meeting of the North Atlantic Association Defense Minister.
« These goals describe exactly what abilities the Allies should invest in the coming years. Air defense, fighter jets, tanks, drones, staff, logistics and more. All this needs to be strong to guarantee our billions of people, » Rutte said at a final press conference.
Rutte announced that at the end of this month, the investment plan, which would amount to 5 percent of GDP for investment on defense capabilities, will propose at the Federation of the Federation of this month, of which 3.5 percent of which GDP for basic military investment, and 1.5 percent for other areas associated with defense, such as infrastructure, industry, etc.
The Secretary -General emphasized that there is a « wide support » with a significant increase in defense allocations. He also said that NATO would remain a « nuclear alliance as long as there was a nuclear weapon.
