German Defence Minister Ursula von der Leyen speaks to Kurdish Peshmerga and German Bundeswehr soldiers during her visit to the educational centre Banslawa near Erbil, Iraq, on September 23, 2016. Photo: Reutes
US president-elect Donald Trump needs to clarify his views on Russia, and to understand that NATO must be treated as an alliance of shared values rather than a business, Germany’s defense minister said.
“What his advisors will hopefully tell him and what he needs to learn is that NATO isn’t just a business. It’s not a company,” Ursula von der Leyen told a ZDF talk show on Thursday. “I don’t …read more
Source: The Himalayan Times