BRUSSELS: US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and the Trump administration\u2019s new envoy to NATO are seeking to reassure wary members of the US commitment to the alliance.
\nRubio on Thursday decried \u201chysteria and hyperbole\u201d in the media about US President Donald Trump\u2019s intentions, despite persistent signals from Washington that NATO as it has existed for 75 years may no longer be relevant.
\nRubio and newly confirmed US ambassador to NATO Matt Whitaker are in Brussels for a meeting of alliance foreign ministers at which many are hoping Rubio will shed light on US security plans in Europe.
\n\u201cThe United States is as active in NATO as it has ever been,\u201d Rubio told reporters as he greeted NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte before the meeting began. \u201cAnd some of this hysteria and hyperbole that I see in the global media and some domestic media in the United States about NATO is unwarranted.\u201d
\n\u201cPresident Trump\u2019s made clear he supports NATO,\u201d Rubio said. \u201cWe\u2019re going to remain in NATO.\u201d
\n\u201cWe want NATO to be stronger, we want NATO to be more visible and the only way NATO can get stronger, more visible is if our partners, the nation states that comprise this important alliance, have more capability,\u201d he said.
\nWhitaker said in a statement that \u201cunder President Trump\u2019s leadership, NATO will be stronger and more effective than ever before, and I believe that a robust NATO can continue to serve as a bedrock of peace and prosperity.\u201d But he added: \u201cNATO\u2019s vitality rests on every ally doing their fair share.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
BRUSSELS: US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and the Trump administration\u2019s new envoy to NATO are seeking to reassure wary members of the US commitment to the alliance. Rubio on Thursday decried \u201chysteria and hyperbole\u201d in the media about US President Donald Trump\u2019s intentions, despite persistent signals from Washington that NATO as it has existed …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":79158,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79143"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79159,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79143\/revisions\/79159"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}