June 9 (UPI) -- NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte was expected to call for member nations and allies to increase defense spending in London on Monday.
Rutte is set to deliver remarks at the Royal Institute of International Affairs, a British think tank also known as Chatham House, in London and meet with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer on the visit to London.
"The fact is, we need a quantum leap in our collective defense," he is expected to say according to remarks shared with reporters.
It is anticipated that Rutte will ask NATO allies to increase their defense spending by 400%. He's likely to lay out an outline for why it's necessary for each to agree to up their military spending to 5% of GDP when they meet at a summit in The Hague later this month.
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