BUDAPEST, Oct. 7 (Xinhua) -- Hungary has proposed setting up a common NATO foundation to finance the bloc's mission in Afghanistan, instead of the current mechanism that each participant sponsors their own activities, Istvan Bocskai, spokesman for the Hungarian Defence Ministry said Tuesday.

NATO member states should make "fair contributions" to the foundation in proportion to the size of their armies, the spokesman stressed, adding that the proposal would be presented at NATO's summit in Budapest slated for Oct. 9-10.

Asserting that stationing around 300 soldiers in Afghanistan is a proportionately greater sacrifice for such a small country like Hungary, Bocskai said restructuring the finance mechanism would make it possible to send more troops to Afghanistan.