US President-elect Donald Trump on Friday met NATO's Secretary General Mark Rutte for the first time since the election. According to a spokeswoman, the meeting took place in Florida, where the two men discussed the global security issues that NATO faces.
NATO chief Mark Rutte held talks with US President-elect Donald Trump in Florida on the "global security issues facing the alliance", a spokeswoman said Saturday.
The meeting took place on Friday in Palm Beach, NATO's Farah Dakhlallah said in a statement.
In his first term Trump aggressively pushed Europe to step up defence spending and questioned the fairness of the NATO transatlantic alliance.
The former Dutch prime minister had said he wanted to meet Trump two days after Trump was elected on November 5, and discuss the threat of increasingly 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 could pull the plug on vital Washington military aid for Ukraine.
NATO allies say keeping Kyiv in the fight against Moscow is key to both European and American security.
(AFP)
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