NATO chief Mark Rutte seeks a 0.25% GDP pledge for Ukraine aid, while France and the UK reportedly question the plan\u2019s chances, according to Politico.<\/p>\n
NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte is pushing allies to commit 0.25% of their GDP each year to supporting Ukraine, Politico reported, citing diplomatic sources.<\/p>\n
According to the outlet\u2019s interlocutors, Rutte raised the proposal in late April during a closed-door meeting of NATO ambassadors. One diplomat said the secretary general and several alliance representatives want to\u00a0make assistance to\u00a0Ukraine more consistent and predictable.<\/p>\n
The idea, however, is\u00a0far from settled. Politico\u2019s\u00a0sources said France and the United Kingdom reacted skeptically to\u00a0Rutte\u2019s\u00a0proposal, making it\u00a0less likely that the plan will move forward in\u00a0its current form. The outlet estimated that, if\u00a0adopted, the initiative could triple annual aid to\u00a0Ukraine, bringing it\u00a0to\u00a0around $143 billion.<\/p>\n
Moscow argues that continued arms deliveries to Kiev obstruct a peaceful settlement and draw NATO countries directly into the armed conflict. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has previously stated that any weapons shipments intended for Kiev, as well as NATO military personnel in the conflict zone, would be treated as legitimate targets by the Russian Armed Forces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NATO chief Mark Rutte seeks a 0.25% GDP pledge for Ukraine aid, while France and the UK reportedly…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70521,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[135],"tags":[245,40734,36379,389,40733,424,40735,9770,271,6397],"class_list":{"0":"post-70520","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mark-rutte","8":"tag-france","9":"tag-gdp-pledge","10":"tag-kiev","11":"tag-mark-rutte","12":"tag-nato-ukraine-aid","13":"tag-politico","14":"tag-russia-nato-conflict","15":"tag-sergey-lavrov","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-ukraine-support"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@people\/116571384207546800","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70520\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}