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NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte said on Monday that he expects alliance members to agree on a broad defense spending target of 5% of gross domestic product at next month’s summit in The Hague.
“I assume that in The Hague we will agree on a high defence spend target of in total 5%,” Rutte said at a meeting of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly in Dayton, News.Az reports citing Reuters.
“Let’s say that this 5%, but I will not say what is the individual breakup, but it will be considerably north of 3% when it comes to the hard spend, and it will be also a target on defence-related spending,” he added.