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NATO chief Mark Rutte discussed “global security issues facing the alliance” with US President-elect Donald Trump in Florida.
NATO’s Farah Dakhullah said in a statement that the meeting took place on Friday in Palm Beach.
In his first term, Trump aggressively pushed Europe to increase defense spending and questioned the fairness of the NATO transatlantic alliance.
The former Dutch prime minister said he wanted to meet with Trump on November 5, two days after he was elected, to discuss the threat of a warming relationship between North Korea and Russia.
Trump’s landslide victory to return to the US presidency has rattled nerves in Europe that he could freeze Washington’s crucial military aid to Ukraine.
NATO allies say keeping Kiev in the war against Moscow is key to 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 told a recent meeting of European leaders in Budapest. are.”
“At the same time, Russia has to pay for it, and one of the things they’re doing is providing technology to North Korea,” which he warned that “the United States (and) There is a threat to the land of continental Europe”.
“I look forward to sitting down with Donald Trump to discuss how we can collectively counter these threats,” Rutte said.
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