US President-elect Donald Trump held his first meeting since the election with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte in Palm Beach, USA, on Friday, November 22, with talks focused on "global security," the NATO press service said on Saturday, UNN reports.
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"NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte met with President-elect Donald Trump in Palm Beach, Florida, on Friday (November 22). They discussed a range of global security issues facing the Alliance," the statement said.
The US Secretary General and his team also reportedly met with Congressman Mike Waltz and members of the US President-elect's national security team.
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In his first term, Trump, as noted in the Western media, persistently pushed Europe to increase defense spending and questioned the fairness of the NATO transatlantic alliance.
The former Dutch prime minister said he would like to meet with Trump two days after his election on November 5 to discuss the threat of increasingly warm relations between North Korea and Russia.
Trump's landslide victory in the U.S. presidential election made Europe nervous that he might cut off Washington's military aid to Ukraine.