only one monument, in front of the court in skopje, criminal court in skopje, was without permits, and — its municipality removed it, really, because it is a monument without permits. i mean, a lot of this debate about the name of what is known at the united nations as the former yugoslav republic of macedonia is because of alexander the great. and the greeks, of course, have got their province of macedonia, and they say alexander the great was born in what is now greek territory, macedonia, we don't want you to have a claim to the name, and so on. it strikes a lot of people as perhaps quite surprising that this fourth—century bc figure could be stoking such passions. the history was the reason why we were stuck in this period of 27 years without our further improvement — like, society globally, generally speaking. finally, learning from the past, we decided to be more focused on the future. it is too much history. let's leave history to the historian guys. they will debate for everything. we are leaders, and we need to preserve the future of our countries. you mentioned our neighbour

the alliance also extended an invitation to the government of skopje.but the situation remains challenging, compounded further by daesh fighters who fled iraq and syria. the defence secretary announced to the house last week a further uplift of 440 uk troops for the uk led kabul security force. and additionalfinancial the uk led kabul security force. and additional financial support for this statement of the afghan national security forces until 2024. asi national security forces until 2024. as i president trump at the summit, our commitment to afghanistan began as nato's on the use of article five, acting in support of the united states following the attack on new york's world trade center. and our uplift will also enable the us personnel to increase counterterrorism activity across afghanistan. the summit also agreed to extend defence capacity building to extend defence capacity building to tunisia, jordan and iraq. the uk's ‘s contribution will play a vital role in strengthening security institutions and promoting stability in the long—term in iraq.

last month's historic agreement between athens and we today agreed to invite even the government of skopjespite the challenge of getting to 2% that that target may not be enough and should actually be set higher. what is your view at this point? would that be helpful or a distraction from getting allies to two to percent? i think we should first get to 2% question. focus on that and that's what we have agreed and that the pledge and a good thing is we are moving towards that. this year, aid allies have committed and a majority of allies have already put forward plans on how to reach 2% within a decade. my focus is on that. we also have to understand that this is really turning the trend because for decades after the end of the cold war, nato allies were cutting defence budgets. in the 1990s, i was minister of finance in norway and i was good at cutting defence budgets. but their intentions went down. now tensions are going up so when we cut defence budgets when tensions are going down, we have to be able to increase defence budgets when tensions are going up.” increase defence budgets when