Alliance to ‘reaffirm’ support for Ukraine and pledged ‘ironclad commitment to collective defence’ spelled out in the defence partnership’s article 5.
Nato member states committed to boost investments on defence to five per cent of their domestic output, largely endorsing US President Donald Trump’s pressure on Washington’s European allies.
The North Atlantic Council (NAC), which convened on Wednesday during the two-day Nato Summit in The Hague, the member states’ leaders agreed to spend the higher percentage annually on core defence requirements and “defence-and-security-related” expenditures by 2035, in the face of “profound security threats and challenges”, including “long-term threats posed by Russia to Euro-Atlantic security”.
