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Reuters
Reuters
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By Andrew Gray and Sabine Siebold

NATO chief urges members to boost defence spending as only 7 hit target

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg holds a news conference to present NATO's annual report for 2022, in Brussels, Belgium March 21, 2023. REUTERS/Johanna Geron

NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg urged member countries to speed up increases in defence spending as new figures showed fewer than a quarter of them meeting the alliance's target.

Stoltenberg said Russia's invasion of Ukraine last year showed the world had become more dangerous, and NATO allies had to respond by setting and meeting more ambitious military spending goals.

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