Trump, 5% goal overshadow Zelenskyy at NATO summitーNHK WORLD-JAPAN NEWS
leaders of NATO countries are gathering in the H for the annual summit they’re expected to agree to raise their country’s defense and relating spending to 5% of GDP the two-day summit of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization began Tuesday the meeting for the second day has kicked off trump has been calling on other NATO members to increase their defense spending saying they heavily depend on the US for security to make NATO stronger we have a concrete plan for all allies to spend 5% of GDP on defense it will go towards core defense as well as defense and security related investments the threat the NATO secretary general added that the move would ensure everyone contributes their fair share the leaders will likely agree to raise defense spending to 3.5% of GDP and defense related spending to 1.5% by 2035 for more we are joined by NHK World’s Antoan Muto who is in the H so Antoine there were doubts over whether Trump would participate with the situation in the Middle East but he did finally um and Ukrainian President Voladimir Zaninski is also there how is the atmosphere for now everything is going on as expected so indeed Trump is participating even though his administration is busy with Iran and Israel it’s a big relief for the European leaders present here in the HEG without Trump many fear this event could have been meaningless and would have spread doubts about the future of the North Atlantic alliance some people here say his presence was partly thanks to the Dutch King Villim Alexander who knew that Trump is fond of a royal atmosphere and invited him to sleep over at his family palace in the H for the Europeans at least it’s also a relief to have Zilinski participating in the summit it took part in last night’s leaders banquet which symbolize NATO solidarity and support towards Ukraine zilinski is also expected to have a bilateral meeting with Trump who he was unable to have at the G7 meeting in Canada last week however the needs and emergency situation in Ukraine seem to be overshadowed by Trump and the focus of the 5% target so 5% seems like a very ambitious target uh will the European countries really be able to achieve this this is for sure the most important and suspenseful question of this NATO summit some of the economically struggling countries especially Spain Spain have raised doubts about their ability to reach this target but with the president of the biggest and strongest contributor the US insisting on its 5% target as the core of its NATO policy they don’t seem to have a choice this was all possible due to pressure from the US there is also a negent feeling about the Russian threat in Europe and they understand that now is the time to spend more money
Both Trump and Zelenskyy are attending the NATO summit in the Netherlands, but the US leader and his 5% spending goal are set to overshadow Ukraine and its troubles. #world #donaldtrump #security #usa #analysis #nato
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