acknowledging that diplomacy and non-defence efforts such as economic aid play an important part in this endeavour; Recognising that all decisions on defence are national and must reflect domestic priorities and command public support; Acknowledging that the effects of the financial and economic crisis continue to strain public budgets; Noting that in today’s volatile and changing international security environment, it is necessary to create new capabilities - and provide extra funding for their development. This is particularly the case for cyberspace, which already is part and parcel of our security environment today and will be even more so in future; URGES member governments and parliaments of the North Alliance and NATO: to maintain the momentum that has been generated by the recent increase in defence spending and provide sufficient financial resources for the modernisation of our forces, thereby allowing NATO to respond to all challenges from wherever they emanate, and to preserve the Alliance’s ability to accomplish its three core tasks; to live up to the Wales Defence Investment Pledge and move towards spending a minimum of 2% of Gross Domestic Product on defence, and more than 20% of defence budgets on major equipment, including related R&D; to ensure that Allied countries work towards a more balanced sharing of the costs and responsibilities for collective defence; to ensure that defence investments are directed towards meeting new capability priorities and not towards other ends, like employment, which are not expressly defence-related and are thus better achieved by other means; to further strengthen and deepen NATO-EU cooperation by improving compatibility and synergy between the two institutional frameworks; to better inform the citizens of NATO member countries about the need to provide the necessary resources for defence and about NATO’s vital role in providing for our security. ________________
acknowledging that diplomacy and non-defence efforts such as economic aid play an important part in this endeavour; Recognising that all decisions on defence are national and must reflect domestic priorities and command public support; Acknowledging that the effects of the financial and economic crisis continue to strain public budgets; Noting that in today’s volatile and changing international security environment, it is necessary to create new capabilities - and provide extra funding for their development. This is particularly the case for cyberspace, which already is part and parcel of our security environment today and will be even more so in future; URGES member governments and parliaments of the North Alliance and NATO: to maintain the momentum that has been generated by the recent increase in defence spending and provide sufficient financial resources for the modernisation of our forces, thereby allowing NATO to respond to all challenges from wherever they emanate, and to preserve the Alliance’s ability to accomplish its three core tasks; to live up to the Wales Defence Investment Pledge and move towards spending a minimum of 2% of Gross Domestic Product on defence, and more than 20% of defence budgets on major equipment, including related R&D; to ensure that Allied countries work towards a more balanced sharing of the costs and responsibilities for collective defence; to ensure that defence investments are directed towards meeting new capability priorities and not towards other ends, like employment, which are not expressly defence-related and are thus better achieved by other means; to further strengthen and deepen NATO-EU cooperation by improving compatibility and synergy between the two institutional frameworks; to better inform the citizens of NATO member countries about the need to provide the necessary resources for defence and about NATO’s vital role in providing for our security. ________________
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