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April 6th, 2009

Hungary’s defense minister pushes for common NATO budget

By MTI

Financing NATO out of a common pool of funds would help the organisation mitigate the effects of the global economic crisis, Hungary’s Defence Minister Imre Szekeres said on Saturday, at the NATO summit currently underway in Strasbourg.

Szekeres was speaking just ahead of the appointment of Denmark’s prime minister, Fogh Rasmussen, as NATO’s secretary general.

The Hungarian delegation also raised the necessity of joint financing at a working dinner of NATO defence ministers in Baden-Baden, Germany, on Friday.

Szekeres called for more cooperation, and mentioned the organisation’s Strategic Airlift Capability programme, operated by 12 member states from Hungary’s Papa airbase, as a good example.

Szekeres also noted that following the US and the UK, Hungary had the largest ratio — 12 percent — of its military active in NATO operations.

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