Washington_ The American president, Donald Trump, meets today with the Secretary General of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), Jens Stoltenberg, Prensa Latina publishes.

During the meeting in the executive mansion, both interlocutors will underline the importance of the alliance "as a bulwark of international peace and security," despite the many voices accusing it of committing abuses around the world, the White House said in a statement.

Trump and Stoltenberg will first hold a private conversation and then hold an extended bilateral meeting.

They will also discuss what the US presidency called the block's' successes, 'including the recent increase in commitments on burden-sharing.'

Especially this is a subject with respect to which there could be new demands of the Republican leader, who since his arrival to power has criticized the bloc because he considers that the United States allocates much more money than his allies.

Frequently the president has pressured NATO members to contribute two percent of their Gross Domestic Product to the budget of the military alliance.

That issue became the subject of confrontation in several meetings with leaders from Europe and Canada.

The tone used by Trump to address this issue and the existing tensions with the US president, in previous meetings of the agency, will provoke the ministerial summit to be held in Washington DC on Wednesday and Thursday to have a lower profile.

This is joined by the differences between Washington and its traditional European partners in issues such as Trump's decision to abandon the nuclear agreement with Iran, defended by countries of the so-called old continent despite the attacks of the head of the White House.

According to the Bloomberg news agency, when foreign ministers meet at the State Department this week and move around the city for speeches and conferences, they will be on Twitter to see if the US president "takes the opportunity to disparage his efforts and question their cause.’

Several civil organizations will carry out protest actions against the military bloc parallel to the meeting of Trump with Stoltenberg, the appearance that the latter will have tomorrow in Congress, and the two-day meeting of NATO.

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