Rutte discusses 'global security' with Trump
Published: 07:11 PM,Nov 23,2024 | EDITED : 11:11 PM,Nov 23,2024
This combination shows US president-elect Donald Trump (L), and Nato Secretary General Mark Rutte. — AFP
BRUSSELS: Nato chief Mark Rutte held talks with US president-elect Donald Trump in Florida on the 'global security issues facing the alliance', a spokeswoman said on Saturday. The meeting took place on Friday in Palm Beach, Nato's Farah Dakhlallah said in a statement.
The former Dutch prime minister had said he wanted to meet Trump two days after Trump was elected on November 5, and discuss the threat of increasingly 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 could pull the plug on vital Washington military aid for Ukraine. Nato allies say keeping Kyiv in the fight against Moscow is key to both European and American security.
'What we see more and more is that North Korea, Iran, China and of course Russia are working together, working together against Ukraine,' Rutte said recently at a European leaders' meeting in Budapest. — AFP
The former Dutch prime minister had said he wanted to meet Trump two days after Trump was elected on November 5, and discuss the threat of increasingly 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 could pull the plug on vital Washington military aid for Ukraine. Nato allies say keeping Kyiv in the fight against Moscow is key to both European and American security.
'What we see more and more is that North Korea, Iran, China and of course Russia are working together, working together against Ukraine,' Rutte said recently at a European leaders' meeting in Budapest. — AFP