Total Expenditures of NATO on defence in 2015 will be reduced by 1, 5%, and that is a concern, said on the first day of the week, the Secretary-General of the Commonwealth of Jens Stoltenberg. "The costs of NATO on defence in 2015 will be reduced by 1, 5%, which is a concern," said the Secretary-General, reports news Agency. He said that the Ministers of defence of member countries of NATO at a meeting in Brussels on June 24-25, approve the composition of the ground and air components of the advance team response Force NATO and special Forces in its composition. According to Stoltenberg, the number of response Force will be increased to 30-40 thousand Soldiers, and among them will add naval and air component and strength of purpose to a group of high alert." The total number will amount to 30-40 thousand soldiers, more than 2 times the previous number. A Central element of these enhanced response Force is the so-called " spearhead ". In February it Was decided that the land component will consist of one brigade. At the meeting this week we approve air, sea component and sparsely from the "tip of the spear," said Stoltenberg, reports RIA " Novosti ". Member countries of the NATO Wales summit in September 2014 has approved an action Plan for maintaining readiness, the need for which in the Alliance attributed to explain Russia's actions in Ukraine. Under this plan it Was decided, for example, to make the inside of the NATO response Force group increased combat readiness, which would be able to send into the territory in the fall for several days. At the beginning of winter, the blessed Alliance development transition team of high alert, with the participation of the armed forces of Germany, the Netherlands and Norway, and in February, NATO has defined its characteristics. It was agreed that this group would consist of land of a population of five thousand people, with the assistance of air, naval and special forces. The main contingent for the group of countries-members of NATO will provide, on a rotating basis, in 2016 "framework government" will be Spain, followed by France, Germany, Italy, Poland and the United Kingdom.