NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said 23 of the alliance's 32 members are on track to meet their ten-year pledge to spend at least 2% of GDP on defense.
"Twenty-three allies will spend two percent or more of GDP on defense this year," Stoltenberg told President Joe Biden in the Oval Office.
"This year NATO allies will increase their defense spending by 18%. This is the biggest increase in decades," he said.
Biden's opponent in the November election, Donald Trump, has long expressed anger at NATO allies who he says are not doing their fair share of collective defense needs.
When NATO allies made the commitment at the 2014 summit, only three countries met the target - the US, Britain and Greece. | BGNES
