NATO to increase its response force to 300,000

Madrid, the capital of Spain, will host the NATO Leaders’ Summit on 29-30 June.

Earlier than the summit to be held NATO Secretary Basic Jens Stoltenberg, He held a press convention on the headquarters in Brussels.

“We’ll increase the variety of troopers over 300 thousand”

“We’ll rework the NATO Response Force (NRF) and increase the variety of troopers of our extremely ready forces to over 300,000.” who says Stoltenbergadditionally shared the newest knowledge on protection spending.

StoltenbergExpressing that it has elevated the quantity of European allies and Canada’s expenditures for the eighth consecutive 12 months, he acknowledged that greater than 350 billion {dollars} can be spent by the tip of the 12 months.

Emphasizing that 9 of all allies achieved or exceeded the two % goal, Stoltenbergacknowledged that 19 of them promised to meet this goal by 2024.

Vladimir Zelensky will attend the summit

Stoltenberg acknowledged that he’s happy to have Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky attend the summit and stated:

“We’ll agree on a strengthened complete assist package deal for Ukraine. This can embrace essential deliveries of help in areas similar to safe communications, anti-drone programs and gas. In the long term, we are going to assist Ukraine transition from Soviet-era navy gear to trendy NATO gear, strengthen protection and safety establishments. We’ll make it stronger.”

“Erdogan performs an energetic function”

Pertaining to the problem of exporting Ukraine’s wheat, Stoltenbergharassed that varied NATO international locations are making efforts for this. Stoltenberg, “I talked to President Erdogan and Turkey is taking part in an energetic function find a means for ships to move via the Black Sea and to get wheat out of Ukraine.” he stated.

NATO membership of Finland and Sweden

StoltenbergConcerning the functions of Finland and Sweden for NATO membership, “We purpose to make progress on this.” stated.

Expressing that he met with President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on June 25, and that he’ll meet with Swedish Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson right now, Stoltenberg He additionally stated that high-level officers from the three international locations will meet at NATO headquarters right now.

Stoltenberg, “I’m glad that President Erdogan, (Finland) President (Sauli) Niinisto and Prime Minister Andersson accepted my invitation to meet in Madrid tomorrow.” he stated.

Turkey’s safety issues

on a query StoltenbergHe harassed that Turkey is working arduous to resolve its safety issues, however can not give a date, and that the summit will not be a deadline on this sense.

Stoltenbergintroduced that Australia, Japan, New Zealand and South Korea will attend the NATO Summit for the primary time, the European Union (EU) and Georgia may even participate, and new help packages can be accepted for Georgia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Moldova, Mauritania and Tunisia. introduced.

The Secretary Basic famous that the Strategic Idea to be adopted on the summit would classify China as a menace to NATO’s safety for the primary time.