Joint Military Alliance of Europe and America NATO members agreed to increase defense spending. From now on they will spend more money in defense than ever before. On Thursday, in a press conference in Brussels, Brussels, the United States President Trump has claimed that But the president of the NATO alliance has rejected the demand of the NATO alliance partner France. The country's President Emanuel Macroon announced that no decision was taken between the defense spending and the increase in the cost of defense. Al Jazeera reported on
According to the news, the partner countries are sitting in a closed-door meeting on Thursday for the second day on Thursday. After the meeting, the President Trumpp attended the press conference. In this he said that there was a great progress in the discussion. He is very happy that NATO members have agreed to spend more money in the Defense sector than before. US responsibility towards NATO has been strengthened further. NATO and US relations have been stronger than two days ago
He said everyone presently thanked me. Finally, they agreed to spend 4 percent of GDP in the defense sector.
Meanwhile, the news agency AP said the French President Emanuel Macroon rejected the demand for NATO to increase defense costs and tram demand. He said NATO members did not agree to spend more on the defense sector than the predicted money. Some news reports have said that Trump threatened to break the 70-year relationship with NATO, if not agreed to increase spending in the defense sector. However, Macroon denied the threat.
At present, the United States spends 3.5 percent of GDP in the defense sector. In addition, Britain, Poland, Greece and Estonia currently spend 2% of their GDP in the defense sector. At the 2014 NATO Summit, member countries reached an agreement. According to the agreement, all member states decided to spend 2 percent of GDP in defense sector by 2024. But in reality, only 15 countries with 29 state-sponsored forces have the ability to fulfill those goals.
Al Jazeera's reporter James Bayes said from Belgium, "There seems to be no decision in the closed-door meeting." Second day President Trump once again created a crisis on defense spending. And afterwards came to the press conference and declared his victory. Trump does not elaborate on how NATO members will meet the US demand of increasing defense spending.
crazy that he actually accomplished what he wanted at NATO