09.09.2014
National Security Council accepts defence spending at 2 pct of GDP
During its Tuesday meeting the National Security Council (RBN) expressed full approval for plans to assign 2 percent of GDP for defence spending starting in 2016, according to President Bronislaw Komorowski.
The Polish president wants Poland's annual spending on defence to be raised from the current 1.95 percent to 2 percent of GDP.
Bronisław Komorowski added that the RBN meeting summed up the recent NATO summit in Wales. Evaluations of the summit were presented by the ministers of foreign affairs and national defence.
"The conclusion from our meeting was that work has begun on a general strengthening of the national security system through increasing the country's defences against all crisis phenomena that can be observed beyond Poland's borders in military and non-military aspects," the president said.
Source: prezydent.pl; PAP