Trumps clear speech has seemed

BRUSSELS (Dagbladet): - I have said, and which I stand by, is that the very clear speech from the Trump has an effect. That, I think, for example, all who attended the summit in July of last year, see. But one can never with certainty how much that would come in anyway, without the very clear speech from Trump, " says Stoltenberg.

Trump opened the NATO meeting with kraftsalve Reprimanded allies

Trump created brudulje both at its first summit in 2017 and on the summit last summer, when he almost threatened that the united STATES would withdraw from alliance commitments if the european allies do not punget out more to NATO defense.

the united STATES now stands at about 72 per cent of Nato defence spending, and this mean Trump is grossly unreasonable. In his first NATO speech in Brussels in 2017. he said the closest that the european NATO-countries "owe" US money.

burden-sharing

"burden-sharing", or the increase of defence budgets to 2 per cent of member states ' GDP, is again the theme at the defence ministerial in Brussels.

NATO gets by the end of the year received reports from all countries on how they stand in relation to the 2-percent target, as all have been agreed that they should now in 2024. Stoltenberg enlightened at his press conference yesterday (Tuesday) that the european allies and Canada since 2016 used 41 billion dollars more on defense. Based on the new reports, the number will increase to over 100 billion dollars next year.

- The allies invest more in modern equipment, and contribute more forces to our missions and operations, said Stoltenberg.

NATO leaders stood skolerett Numbers Trump will see

On the question from NTB about why NATO is raining especially from 2016, respond Stoltenberg that the americans are particularly interested in the changes from this year, since it was when Donald Trump was president.

the Americans have noted the numbers, which was also cited in State of the Union speech. I wanted to convince americans that europeans now spend more on defense, and therefore, I use the numbers that illustrate it, " says Stoltenberg.

At the summit in Brussels in 2017, it was decided a more stringent reporting on nations ' defence budgets than before. Countries to give NATO a "credible" plans for how they will achieve the target of 2 per cent by 2024.

Ernas plan

the Report for the 2018 show that Norway uses 1, 61 per cent of the GDP to defense. The state budget for next year suggests that number will be 1, 59 per cent, that is, a prosentuell decline, although the rate of increase in money and the ear was 4, 5 billion.

the Plans shall be submitted by the regjeringssjefen and be politically binding. Stoltenberg would not say whether Norway has come up with a credible plan to reach the goal.

Ernas plan

- We will not publish figures for each country now. We know that the numbers are adjusted throughout the year, and we get to safer numbers later. What I can say, is that a majority of the member states of Nato have a plan to reach the 2 per cent target, " says Stoltenberg.

prime Minister Erna Solberg and minister of defence Frank Bakke-Jensen has previously said that the next long-term plan for the Armed forces will have as a premise that the Uk should "move towards the 2% target in 2024." This formulation is in line with the wording from the NATO summit in Wales in 2014, but from last year to this year forsvarsutgiftenes a share of GDP, thus gone down.

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