Thursday, April 3, 2014

Estonia is leading by example when it comes to investing the right amount of resources in the right defence capabilities.

The Secretary General said that Estonia is leading by example when it comes to investing the right amount of resources in the right defence capabilities.    

“Despite the economic crisis, you are spending 2% of your gross domestic product on defence.  This shows your commitment to collective defence. And it shows that if Estonia can do it, other Allies can do it too”, Mr. Fogh Rasmussen said.

Responding to journalists’ questions on claims by the Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov that NATO was not respecting its bilateral agreements with Russia, the NATO Secretary General said:


 “no, of course we haven’t violated the Rome Declaration and I’m actually surprised that Russia can claim that NATO has violated its commitments, because Russia is violating every principle and international commitment it has made. First and foremost the commitment not to invade other countries. Russia has undermined all the principles of our relationship and therefore there can no longer be business as usual and to make it clear NATO’s core task is to defend our allies and this is what we are doing”. 
nato.int
3/4/14
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