According to Stoltenberg, one of the goals is to expand the army to 300,000. In addition, nine allies have achieved or exceeded the investment of more than 2% of their GDP in defense, and another 19 have “clear plans” to achieve this. The border and Madrid, shielded from the top.
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At their summit this week in Madrid, NATO leaders plan to ramp up the reinforcement of forces deployed in the Alliance’s east and multiply from 40,000 to more than 300,000 troops on high alert to Russia, which they will regard as “the greatest threat” to your security.
“Our summit in Madrid this week will be transformative,” the Secretary-General of the Alliance, Jens Stoltenberg, said at a press conference in Brussels ahead of Wednesday’s and Thursday’s meeting in the Spanish capital.
One of the key decisions NATO’s heads of state or government will make, he explained, will be to “transform” the Response Force and increase the number of highly available troops to well above 300,000 troops.
The NATO Response Force, a highly prepared and technologically advanced multinational force comprising ground, air, naval and special operations forces components that the Alliance can rapidly deploy where needed, currently numbers 40,000 troops.
Stoltenberg made it clear that meeting all these challenges requires “more investment”.
NATO today released new figures on allies’ defense spending, showing that 2022 will be “the eighth straight year of increases in European allies and Canada”.
At the moment, nine allies have already reached or exceeded the target of investing 2% of their GDP in defense, set for 2024, while 19 have “clear plans” to reach it then and another five have made “concrete commitments”. to achieve this from then on .
“The 2% is increasingly seen as a floor, not a ceiling,” Stoltenberg said.
Border Controls and Armored Madrid
Security at the Biriatu border crossing, in Irun (Gipuzkoa), has been strengthened in recent days due to the holding of the summit, and the special checks will last until 00:00 next Sunday, July 3, as announced Monday by the deputy of the Spanish government in Euskadi, Denis Itxaso.
The Interior Ministry has designed an important piece of equipment to guarantee the security of the heads of state or government who will arrive in Madrid between June 28 and 30 for the NATO summit in the Spanish capital.
On the other hand, the Directorate General of Traffic (DGT) has set up a special device for entering and leaving Madrid and that includes traffic closures on the A-2, M-11 and M-40.
Specifically, from Tuesday the 28th, there will be occasional traffic restrictions on these three roads, especially in the early morning and afternoon. It will be in the section between the A-2 and M-11, although there may be cuts in other areas that will, predictably, lead to retentions in the rest of the access roads to the city of Madrid, the DGT warned in a statement. .
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Source: EITB
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