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Source: People’s Republic of China in Russian – People’s Republic of China in Russian –
Source: People’s Republic of China – State Council News
Moscow, June 26 /Xinhua/ — The decision by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) member countries to increase annual defense spending to 5 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) by 2035 will not affect Russia’s security, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Thursday.
“As for the impact of this goal – five percent – on the state of our security, I don’t think it will be in any way significant,” TASS quotes him as saying.
According to the head of the Russian Foreign Ministry, such a decision could be fraught with danger for the Europeans themselves. “The threat is getting worse, and this is a threat to the taxpayers of the European Union countries, and even Britain, who have been simply robbed over the past three years,” S. Lavrov emphasized. –0–