Washington, April 9 (IANS) An Indian-American Congressman has warned President Donald Trump that any move to withdraw the United States from NATO without congressional approval would be illegal and would weaken national security.In a letter sent after Trump’s White House meeting with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi raised “deep concern” over the President’s recent remarks about leaving the alliance.“Any unilateral US exit from NATO would be both strat…
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Washington, April 9 (IANS) US President Donald Trump discussed the possibility of the United States stepping back from NATO, as he met with Secretary General Mark Rutte, amidst widened differences over the alliance’s response to the Iran conflict.The White House said Trump has been considering withdrawing from NATO, with Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt quoting the President as saying the alliance had fallen short.“They were tested and they failed,” she told reporters at a White House news…
Washington, April 4 (IANS) NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte will travel to Washington, DC from April 8 to 12, where he is scheduled to meet US President Donald Trump and other senior officials, according to a statement shared by a NATO spokesperson.The spokesperson said that on April 8, Rutte will hold talks with Trump, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth.The visit will also include a public engagement on April 9, when Rutte is expected to deliver a speech and …
Washington, March 23 (IANS) NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte backed US actions against Iran, warning that Tehran is “very close” to developing missile capabilities that could threaten Europe, even as NATO assessed reports of a long-range strike on a US-UK base in the Indian Ocean.Speaking on CBS News’ “Face the Nation,” Rutte said NATO could not yet confirm claims that Iran had fired missiles at Diego Garcia, but stressed the implications if verified.“We cannot confirm that at the m…
Munich, Feb 15 (IANS) Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen has said that US President Donald Trump’s desire to obtain Greenland has not changed.”I think the desire from the US president is exactly the same. He is very serious about this theme,” Frederiksen said at a panel of the Munich Security Conference on Saturday (local time).”We have to protect sovereign states. We have to protect people’s right to self-determination. And the Greenlandic people have been very clear: they don’t want to be…
Brussels, Jan 23 (IANS) The status of Denmark as a sovereign state cannot be negotiated, Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said ahead of an emergency European Council summit in Brussels.She said Denmark has asked the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) to strengthen its presence in the Arctic region. “We need a permanent presence from NATO in the Arctic region, including around Greenland.”Frederiksen reaffirmed that the kingdom’s sovereignty is the red line. “We have said from the ve…
Washington, Jan 22 (IANS) US President Donald Trump signalled what he described as a breakthrough framework with NATO on Greenland and Arctic security, linking it to alliance burden-sharing, US economic leverage and a wider transatlantic reset during a packed day of engagements at the World Economic Forum in Davos.“Based upon a very productive meeting that I have had with the Secretary General of NATO, Mark Rutte, we have formed the framework of a future deal with respect to Greenland and, in …
Washington, Jan 20 (IANS) US President Donald Trump on Tuesday shared screenshots of what seemed to be private text messages from his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron and North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) Secretary General Mark Rutte. According to the message, Macron told Trump that he did not understand what the US President was doing in Greenland and offered to set up a G7 meeting in Paris following the World Economic Forum in Davos on Thursday afternoon.He even expressed support for…