Barely 12 hours after being sworn in as US secretary of state, Mike Pompeo went straight to Nato headquarters yesterday in what European allies saw as strong support for an institution that US President Donald Trump once called obsolete.In a day of closed-door meetings with North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (Nato) foreign ministers, Pompeo appeared to charm European allies with tough talk on Russia and a more sure-footed approach than his predecessor Rex Tillerson, but he still carried Trump’s familiar demand for higher defence spending.He also made no promises about whether his boss would stick to a 2015 accord to stop …read more
Source: Gulf times
