NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said members of the bloc agreed to reallocate budget contributions, which reduced US rates.

"The United States will contribute less, and Germany will have more, so now the contribution of the United States and Germany to the NATO budget will be equal," said Secretary General of the North Atlantic Treaty (NATO) Jens Stoltenberg. during a meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris on November 28.

Under the new agreement expected to be implemented from 2021, the US contribution to the NATO budget will be reduced from 22% to 16%. NATO member countries contribute about $ 2.5 billion a year, much lower than the US $ 700 billion defense budget, mainly for headquarters, staff and some military operations. general.

The NATO budget is not related to the defense budget of 2% of GDP that each member country pledges to apply until 2024. To date, only 8 of the 29 NATO members have achieved the goal of spending at least 2% of GDP on spending. military targets.

However, General Secretary Stoltenberg said the total military spending of NATO member countries has increased to $ 130 billion, since Russia annexed Crimea 5 years ago.

The announcement of the redistribution of the budget contribution comes as NATO is about to hold a 70th anniversary summit in London next week. This appears to be a move to appease Trump by NATO leaders ahead of the organization's important anniversary, to prevent Trump from making threats of "abandoning NATO" at the Brussels summit in July 2018. .

French President Emmanuel Macron said on November 7 that NATO was "brain dead" because of a lack of coordination among its members. Macron was annoyed when Trump told Turkish President Erdogan that he withdrew from Syria without notifying other NATO members.

The relationship between the United States and NATO became more strained under President Trump as he repeatedly pressed allies to increase the cost of contributing to the organization.