US President Donald Trump urged Germany to pay $375bn NATO debt: Report
Jokpeme Joseph Omode
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German Chancellor
Angela Merkel (L) and US President Donald Trump look on during a
meeting at the White House, March 17, 2017. (Photo by AFP)
US President Donald Trump has
reportedly called on German Chancellor Angela Merkel to pay hundreds of
billions of dollars Berlin owes to the North Atlantic Treaty
Organization (NATO), a German minister says, calling the request
“outrageous.”
Trump handed the bill – thought to be for
more than £300 billionns (US$375 billions) —to Merkel during their last
week meeting in Washington, DC, the Sunday Times reported, citing an unnamed German minister.
“The
concept behind putting out such demands is to intimidate the other
side, but the chancellor took it calmly and will not respond to such
provocations,” the minister added.
During the meeting, the new US
president reportedly criticized Germany for not making adequate
contributions to the military alliance, forcing the US to burden larger
spending than its fair share.
Under a 2014 agreement, each NATO
member should set aside two percent of their GDP for military purposes.
However, only the US, Britain, Estonia, Greece and Poland have so far
been able to meet the target.
Despite constantly increasing its military spending, Germany has yet to invest the required amount.
According
to the report, Trump’s bill takes 2002 as the starting point for the
2-percent payment and calculates the amount that Germans have fallen
short of paying since then plus interest.
US
President Donald Trump (right) and German Chancellor Angela Merkel hold
a joint press conference in the East Room of the White House in
Washington, DC, March 17, 2017. (Photo by AFP)American
officials argue that in 2002, Merkel’s predecessor, Gerhard Schröder,
committed his country to higher military spending.
Sources within
the US government have indicated that Trump is preparing similar bills
for all NATO members who have not paid their share in full.
“The
president has a very unorthodox view on NATO defense spending,” said a
source close to Merkel. “The alliance is not a club with a membership
fee. The commitments relate to countries’ investment in their defense
budgets.”
The Times noted that Merkel “ignored the provocation”
but promised to gradually increase spending. She also asked Trump to
factor in the money Berlin was spending for international development.
A
day after his meeting with Merkel, Trump said in a tweet that Germany
"owes vast sums of money to NATO & the United States must be paid
more for the powerful, and very expensive, defense it provides to
Germany!"
German Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen said in
response that Trump was wrong to assume that Germany and other NATO
members have to spend the entire two percent of their economic output on
issues related to the alliance.
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