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Mark Rutte will be the Secretary General of NATO

2024-06-20 14:46:00, Kosova & Bota CNA
Mark Rutte will be the Secretary General of NATO
Mark Rutte, photo AFP

Mark Rutte will be the next Secretary General of NATO after all 32 members of the alliance agreed that the outgoing Dutch Prime Minister will succeed Jens Stoltenberg.

Following approvals from Hungary and Slovakia on Tuesday, Romania confirmed its support for Rutte on Thursday, with Romanian President Klaus Iohannis withdrawing his candidacy for the top NATO post.

During a meeting of the High Council of National Defense, Iohannis said that he had notified NATO allies of the withdrawal of his candidacy.

Rutte will take the leadership of NATO at a critical moment. His new job will begin on October 2, just over a month before the US election, which will shape the fate of the military alliance that has served as Eastern Europe's most successful deterrent against an aggressive Russia. Former US President Donald Trump, the current Republican candidate, has pledged to stay in NATO but threatened to cut US aid to Ukraine if re-elected.

Rutte's quest for the top NATO post has been a long journey. He has been campaigning for the position since last November.

Rutte has been criticized for not being active enough in seeking support from Eastern European countries, which questioned his pre-2014 support for Russia's Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline project. /CNA 

 





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