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 mentioned on Saturday (Nov 23).
The assembly passed off on Friday in Palm Seashore, NATO’s Farah Dakhlallah mentioned 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 mentioned he wished to satisfy Trump two days after Trump was elected on Nov 5, and focus on 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 might pull the plug on very important Washington army help for Ukraine.
NATO allies say protecting Kyiv within the struggle in opposition to Moscow is essential to each European and American safety.
“What we see increasingly more is that North Korea, Iran, China and naturally Russia are working collectively, working collectively in opposition to Ukraine,” Rutte mentioned just 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 know-how 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 mentioned.
