May 27 (UPI) -- NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte said that he expects alliance members to agree during next month's summit to a defense spending target of 5% of gross domestic product.
Rutte made the revelation during the sixth and final day of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly in Dayton, Ohio.
"I assume that in The Hague we will agree on a hard defense spend target of 5%," he said.
"Let's say that this 5%, but I will not say what is the individual breakup, but it will be considerably north of 3% when it comes to the hard spend and it will be also a target on defense-related spending."
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