Prime Minister Carney heads to NATO summit in Turkey next week
Carney will attend the NATO gathering in Ankara on July 7-8, then travel to Saudi Arabia. Both will be his first official visits to those countries.
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Prime Minister Mark Carney will attend the NATO summit in Ankara, Turkey on July 7 and 8, then travel to Saudi Arabia—his first official visits to both countries.
NATO members are gathering in Ankara to celebrate an alliance-wide increase in defence spending, following years of U.S. pressure for members to boost military and national security budgets. But NATO nations remain under pressure to show credible plans to meet the latest alliance defence spending benchmark of five per cent of GDP by 2035.
Ahead of the summit, Carney has been campaigning for allies to support the establishment of a multinational defence bank to finance defence sector growth.
In Saudi Arabia, Carney is scheduled to meet with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to discuss expanding trade and investment. According to Carney's office, this will be the first visit to Saudi Arabia by a Canadian prime minister in 26 years, and the first to Turkey in more than a decade.
