Nine countries commit to global defence bank, Canada says

By Jonathan Spicer, Iain Withers and Marc Jones

ANKARA/LONDON, July 7 (Reuters) - Nine countries have committed to a new global defence bank, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said on Tuesday, in a boost for the multilateral drive to help rearm allied nations.

Carney said in a statement at the NATO summit in Turkey's capital Ankara that Albania, Belgium, Greece, Latvia, Luxembourg, Romania, Turkey and Ukraine had all pledged their support to the Defence, Security and Resilience Bank (DSRB), which will be based in Canada.