2024-06-26 16:24:44
NATO ambassadors have confirmed Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte as the brand new Secretary Common. As Day.Az studies, that is acknowledged within the alliance’s message.
Rutte will substitute Jens Stoltenberg. He’ll start his duties in October 2024, the press service defined.
The Politico newspaper wrote that he must act as a political counterweight to former US President Donald Trump, who could possibly be re-elected as President of the US this yr.
The publication recalled that Stoltenberg tried to enhance relations with Trump by way of a “coverage of appeasement,” for instance, by permitting Trump to take duty for serving to enhance protection spending for quite a few NATO member nations. “This technique could not work throughout (Trump’s) second time period,” Politico assesses.
Beforehand, The Washington Publish wrote that Rutte, who’s more likely to substitute Jens Stoltenberg as NATO secretary common after Romanian President Klaus Iohannis refused to run for the submit, is a perfect candidate for the submit to cooperate with Donald Trump if he returns to the White Home.