BRUSSELS (Reuters) – NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg sidestepped questions on Friday about U.S. President Joe Biden‘s health ahead of an alliance summit in Washington next week, saying one reason for NATO’s success was that it stayed out of domestic political issues. Biden’s health has become a major issue in the U.S. election campaign following his […]
(Bloomberg) — Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte will become NATO’s next secretary general, succeeding Jens Stoltenberg who steps down later this year, the military alliance said in a statement. Most Read from Bloomberg All 32 of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization allies agreed that Rutte, 57, will take over from Stoltenberg on Oct. 1 when […]
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – NATO will assume a greater role in the coordination of arms supplies to Ukraine, the alliance said on Friday, taking over from the U.S. in a bid to safeguard the aid mechanism as NATO-sceptic Donald Trump bids for a second term as U.S. president. “These efforts do not make NATO a party […]
On the second anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has expressed his certainty that Ukraine’s future lies in the Western defence alliance. “Ukraine will join NATO. It is not a question of if, but of when,” he said in a video message released on Saturday. Russian forces launched a […]
A NATO spokesman has confirmed to the Financial Times that NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg was indeed referring to Ukraine’s right to self-defence, including striking legitimate Russian military targets outside Ukraine. Source: European Pravda Details: In an interview with Radio Liberty, the NATO Secretary General said that the use of Western-supplied weapons to strike targets […]
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has sharply criticized the Chinese government’s reaction to the death in prison of Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny. “Today we had the statement from the Chinese foreign minister saying that the death of Navalny is an ‘internal Russian issue.’ Well, it’s not an internal Russian issue because we all know […]
Should Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy ultimately decide to sack Commander-in-Chief Valerii Zaluzhnyi, it would not affect Western security assistance to Kyiv, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said at a press briefing on Feb. 7. In response to a question about the possible dismissal of Zaluzhnyi, Stoltenberg said that “this is a decision for Ukraine, not […]
President Volodymyr Zelensky met NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on the opening day of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos on Jan. 16. Zelensky arrived in Switzerland on Jan. 15 to attend the WEF, an annual event that gathers the world’s government, business, and civil society […]