NATO chief Mark Rutte spoke with US President-elect Donald Trump in Florida on “global security issues facing the alliance,” a spokesman said on Saturday.
NATO’s Farah Daclara said in a statement that the meeting took place in Palm Beach on Friday.
During his first term, Trump aggressively urged Europe to increase its defense spending and questioned the fairness of NATO’s transatlantic alliance.
The former Dutch prime minister had said he wanted to meet with President Trump two days after his election on November 5 to discuss the threat of increasingly worsening relations between North Korea and Russia.
Trump’s landslide return to the US presidency has sparked fears in Europe that he may cut off critical US military aid to Ukraine.
NATO allies argue that keeping Kiev in the fight against Moscow is key to the security of both Europe and the United States.
“Increasingly, North Korea, Iran, China and, of course, Russia are working together and cooperating against Ukraine,” Prime Minister Rutte said at a recent European summit in Budapest.
“At the same time, Russia has to pay for that, and one of the things they’re doing is providing technology to North Korea,” which threatens “the continental United States (and) continental Europe.” warned that.
“I look forward to sitting down with Donald Trump and discussing how we can collectively confront these threats,” Rutte said.
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