BRUSSELS: NATO chief Mark Rutte held talks with US President-elect Donald Trump in Florida on the “international safety points going through the alliance”, a spokeswoman stated on Saturday (Nov 23).
The assembly came about on Friday in Palm Seaside, NATO’s Farah Dakhlallah stated in a press release.
In his first time period Trump aggressively pushed Europe to step up defence spending and questioned the equity of the NATO transatlantic alliance.
The previous Dutch prime minister had stated he needed to fulfill Trump two days after Trump was elected on Nov 5, and talk about the specter of more and more warming ties between North Korea and Russia.
Trump’s thumping victory to return to the US presidency has set nerves jangling in Europe that he may pull the plug on important Washington army support for Ukraine.
NATO allies say maintaining Kyiv within the combat towards Moscow is vital to each European and American safety.
“What we see increasingly is that North Korea, Iran, China and naturally Russia are working collectively, working collectively towards Ukraine,” Rutte stated lately at a European leaders’ assembly in Budapest.
“On the identical time, Russia has to pay for this, and one of many issues they’re doing is delivering expertise to North Korea”, which he warned was threatening to the “mainland of the US (and) continental Europe”.
“I look ahead to sitting down with Donald Trump to debate how we will face these threats collectively,” Rutte stated.