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# NATO Secretary General Responds to Trump's Criticism

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_Published 2018-07-11. Not long after President Donald Trump woke up Wednesday morning in Brussels, he arrived at a public breakfast and took aim at his latest favorite target for ridicule, NATO allies, for not boosting their defense spending._


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## Transcript

Secretary General just to clarification before we came into your news conference some of the NATO leaders were giving their assessment of the meeting. And we understand that President Trump asked NATO allies to raise defense spending to four percent. Is this the case? And if so what's your response, thank you. Well, I will focus on what we have agreed. And we have agreed to be committed to the pledged increase in defense spending to 2 %, and let's start with that. So we have a way to go, but the good news is that we have really started to deliver I think that if you go back to 2014, and ask the leaders, commentators whether European allies would make that much progress we have seen from 2014 up to today.

I think many people would have doubted that. But the reality is that now allies are started to increase [ UNKNOWN ] increase. More allies spend 2 % of GDP on defense. And last year we saw the biggest increase ever. On top of that, on the initiative of President Trump last May, last year, we agreed to develop the national plans as a very powerful tool to make sure that allies deliver. On the promise to increase the fund spening. And the national plans have proven to be exactly the strong and powerful tools, we expected to be. Because they [ UNKNOWN ] the majority of allies are all the presented plans showing all how the step by step move to reach the 2 % goal So we are delivering.

There are differences in our discussions. There are disagreements. But NATO has made decisions. And we are delivering on the defense pledge. And for me in the long run substance is what counts. And on substance NATO is delivering.

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