The UK should maintain military spending at 2% of gross domestic product, said the head of Barack Obama in negotiations with British Prime Minister David Cameron. As informs Reuters, Barack Obama addressed the issue during a bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the G7 summit in Germany. Washington fears that the military expenditure of its major ally have the opportunity to fall below the level required NATO, RIA " Novosti ". according to the information source, " they pronounced about 2% ", while Obama drew attention that North America and the UK are 2 bedrooms in the main pillars of NATO, noting that he is aware of the financial difficulties of London, however, holds out hope that the UK will find a way to solve them. In ELMAU castle on 7-8 June meet the leaders of the "group of seven" - Germany, USA, Canada, France, Italy, Japan and the UK. Russia, which was adopted in "seven" in 1998, excluded from participation in the event is from 2014. It is said that the head of Barack Obama and German Chancellor Angela Merkel meet ahead of a G7 summit and agreed on sanctions against Russia. Before Merkel said that Russia's participation in the G7 summit is now unthinkable. Before that Merkel has included the Russian Federation in the number of global threats. On the first day of the weekend in Bavaria thousands of people attended a protest against the opening of the G7 summit. Moscow has stated many times that it is not involved in the events in southeastern Ukraine, is not a party to domestic conflict and is interested in Ukraine overcame political and economic crisis. In the capital of Russia emphasize that all the charges against her are unproven.