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the US President Donald trump called the condition under which America will not withdraw its troops from Germany. About it reports Reuters.

the Us leader said that if Germany starts to allocate more funds to defense, USA will reduce its contingent in the country. He also complained that Germany violates the agreement on NATO military budgets.

Earlier, the press Secretary of the head of the White house Keighley Makinano said that trump has no plans to “punish” the German Chancellor Angela Merkel the withdrawal of American troops from Germany. Among the possible reasons of this decision, us authorities named refusal of the heads to Germany to attend the G7 summit in Washington and the White house dissatisfaction with the cooperation of Germany with Russia on the project “Nord stream-2”.

6 Jun administration trump announced the decision to reduce the number of American troops, which is in Germany. Currently the country are 34.5 thousand U.S. military. The head of state ordered the Pentagon to reduce their numbers by 9.5 thousand. In addition, trump ordered to limit the number of simultaneously located in Germany American servicemen to 25 thousand people is acceptable now 52 thousand.