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Canada, Germany reject NATO 2%

Canada, Germany reject NATO bid to raise military spending to 2% of GDP
By Wojtek Gwiazda | english@rcinet.ca

Wednesday 3 September, 2014

Days before a NATO summit in Wales, Canada’s Prime Minister Stephen Harper has rejected a request from the organization to increase Canadian defence spending to two per cent of the country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP).

“As a Conservative government we have the same philosophy on defence budgeting that we do on any other budgeting, which is, we don’t go out and just specify a dollar figure, and then figure out how to spend it, We go out and figure out what it is we need to do…” the Prime Minister said on Wednesday (September 3) in London.

The Prime Minister’s remarks come the day after a Canadian official said Canada was “open to increasing military spending when and where it makes sense and in response to particular needs. But the notion of setting an arbitrary target does not make sense.”

Germany has also rejected the two per cent commitment.

Media reports suggest NATO is preparing a compromise solution for the summit in Wales.

One report quotes Prime Minister Harper saying; “We’ve agreed to compromise language which essentially acknowledges that all of our countries – all those countries that are below 2% will aim to spend more going forward.”

Lanka to train more foreign troops

Lanka to train more foreign troops


The Government is to provide more training opportunities for foreign Army officers at the Defense Services Command and Staff College.

This will be both on payment and free of charge, in terms of a decision reached by the Cabinet, following a recommendation by President Mahinda Rajapaksa, who is also the Minister of Defense.

Free training opportunities are to be provided next year for officers from Australia, Bangladesh, China, India, Malaysia, Nepal, Pakistan, Rwanda, Senegal, Singapore, Sudan, Vietnam and Turkey.

Countries that pay to have their officers trained include Indonesia, the Maldives and Oman. The Defense Services Command and Staff College is the highest military training institution in Sri Lanka. It provides training to middle level officers of the tri-services and the Police in Sri Lanka.

Prime Minister Cameron Remarks at NATO Summit Closing

                                            C-SPAN SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

Prime Minister Cameron Remarks at NATO Summit Closing

Prime Minister David Cameron spoke with reporters and responded to questions following the conclusion of the NATO Summit in Wales. He said that the ceasefire agreement in Ukraine was “good news” but there needed to be a commitment to a “proper peace plan.” He suggested that sanctions would continue but could be lifted if such a peace plan was put in place. Other topics included Scottish independence and and the threat from Islamic State* militants.

*The Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), also known as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), an extremist Sunni militant group that has called itself the Islamic State.

President Obama Remarks at NATO Summit Closing

C-SPAN SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

President Obama Remarks at NATO Summit Closing

President Obama spoke with reporters and responded to questions following the conclusion of the NATO Summit in Wales. He said that there was unanimous agreement in NATO that there must be immediate action addressing the threat posed by ISIL.* President Obama said the goal was to “degrade and ultimately destroy ISIL” because they posed a threat to the international alliance. He also spoke about the ceasefire in Ukraine and the need to protect member nations from aggression.

*The Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), also known as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), an extremist Sunni militant group that has called itself the Islamic State. 

‘Expansionism and destabilization’: Russia lashes out NATO

‘Expansionism and destabilization’: 

Russia lashes out over NATO spearhead force in Eastern Europe!

Published time: September 05, 2014 22:55

Moscow has accused NATO of using the Ukrainian crisis as a “pretext” to “push its military presence closer to Russia’s borders,” and says that plans for a new rapid response force will sabotage the peace process in eastern Ukraine.

“The [expansion] plans have been harbored by NATO for a long time, and recent events have served as a pretext to put them into action,” said a statement published on the Russian Foreign Ministry’s website, following the wrapping up of the NATO summit in Wales.

“Together with the rhetoric at the summit, and the planned military exercises before the end of the year, this will increase tension, destabilization the nascent peace process, and further widen the division in Ukraine,” the ministry’s statement said.

“The above is also testament to NATO’s unconditional support for the extremists and neo-fascists in Kiev, including the Right Sector political movement,” it stressed.

During the two-day summit, the 28 NATO member states instituted the creation of a rapid response unit numbering at least 4,000. It could be deployed in Eastern Europe – where it will be based – in less than 48 hours.

The primary stated reason for the initiative is “Russia’s aggression against Ukraine.”

Russia’s NATO envoy, Aleksandr Grushko, also denounced NATO’s policy, suggesting that the alliance was engaged in “Cold War thinking,” and risked undermining the landmark 1997 treaty in which Moscow and Brussels officially proclaimed that they were no longer “adversaries.”

In a TV interview, Grushko said that NATO was “flexing its muscles,” and pointed out that an increased presence of NATO vessels in the Baltic and Black Sea would destroy the recently built-up level of trust in what were once the potential flashpoints in the standoff.


Grushko also called the planned NATO-Ukraine exercises a “provocation” because “foreign troops will appear in a country that is fighting its own people.”

“NATO must play no role in the Ukrainian conflict,” the official told Rossiya-24 network.

He also accused the US of “trying to unload the financial burden of maintaining NATO onto its allies.”

Despite the harsh rhetoric, Moscow left room for potential cooperation with NATO through the NATO-Russia Council, which the foreign ministry said is an “efficient mechanism for consultation and developing common approaches.”

“We will continue to cooperate with the alliance, providing it takes our national interests into account,” Grushko stressed.

NATO cooperation with Russia has been suspended since March, following the ascension of Crimea to the Russian Federation.

NATO Leaders to Vow to Lift Military Spending

NATO Leaders to Vow to Lift Military Spending
Commitment Would Be Nonbinding

By STEPHEN FIDLER CONNECT
Updated Sept. 4, 2014 12:01 p.m. ET


NEWPORT, Wales—Leaders of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization will pledge at a summit here to lift their military spending to 2% of each country's gross domestic product over the next 10 years, according to three officials familiar with the negotiations over the summit communiqué.

Only four of NATO's 28 member states currently meet or exceed that level: the U.S., U.K., Greece and Estonia. The decision to cite the 2% figure was the subject of intense political negotiations ahead of the meeting here. NATO summit conclusions negotiated ahead of time are rarely overturned by leaders.

Before the meeting started on Thursday, NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said the alliance would "turn the corner and reverse the trend of declining military spending" at the summit.

The summit statement is expected to say that governments will "aim to" meet the 2% target in 10 years, meaning it is a nonbinding commitment. It will include a pledge for countries to spend 20% of their defense budget on investment, including new equipment. The latter target was included after German encouragement, since Berlin argues that the quality of military spending matters as much as the amount.

Diplomats said the pledge was initially resisted by Canada, which spent just 1% of GDP on defense last year, according to NATO estimates, and Germany, which spent 1.3%.

In 2002, NATO leaders decided at a summit in Prague that 2% should be the "benchmark" for military spending. Since then, military spending in most European countries has continued to decline.