BrusselscTypeface:> NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte met US President-elect Donald Trump in Florida on Friday.
“They discussed the range of global security issues facing the alliance,” NATO spokeswoman Farah Dakhlallah told DPA. She declined to provide any further details about their talks.
The meeting between Trump and Rutte, the former Dutch prime minister who took over the top NATO job earlier this year, had not been publicly announced in advance.
According to information from sources within the alliance, the meeting was to discuss Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine as well as the issue of defence spending by NATO members, among other topics During the election campaign, Trump claimed that he could end the Russian war of aggression within 24 hours and demanded that all NATO countries spend at least 3 percent of their gross domestic product (GDP) on defence in the future.
Apart from the United States, only four of the 32 NATO countries currently reach this mark. (DPA)
