Italy is backing Dutch Prime Minister
Mark Rutte to become the next secretary general of NATO
succeeding Jens Stoltenberg whose term is set to end, Foreign
Minister Antonio Tajani said Thursday.
"We spoke yesterday about the next secretary general and we
reiterated our position, which is in favour of the Dutch Prime
Minister Mark Rutte," Tajani said on the sidelines of a NATO
foreign ministers' meeting.
"There is a broad majority in his favour but we'll have to wait
for the responses of Turkey, Romania and Hungary, who are
backing the candidacy of Romanian President Klaus Iohannis," he
went on.
"But I hope we can find an agreement".
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