NATO Chief: We Have Heard a ‘Firm and Clear Message’ from the U.S. on Supporting NATO

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STOLTENBERG: "Let me just add that the focus of the alliance is on how can we make sure we succeed in delivering on what we agreed about fair burden sharing and increased defense spending? And therefore I will not speculate so much about or else what will happen if we don’t succeed. But we heard a firm and clear message from the United States. We’ve heard it from the president, we’ve heard it from the vice president and from Secretary Mattis at the defense ministerial meeting. So, I think that just underlines the importance of making sure that we move, that we succeed in --in increasing defense spending across the Europe and -- and Canada."