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 befell 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 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 might pull the plug on important Washington army assist for Ukraine.
NATO allies say maintaining Kyiv within the combat towards 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 towards Ukraine,” Rutte mentioned not too long ago 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 stay up for sitting down with Donald Trump to debate how we are able to face these threats collectively,” Rutte mentioned.
