NATO would seek early summit with Biden, if elected, envoys say

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Trump has said that the Western alliance is 'obsolete' and some allies are 'delinquent' as well as issuing a veiled threat in July 2018 to pull the United States out of the alliance.

While the U.S.-led alliance agreed last year to hold a summit in 2021, a meeting in the spring would be an early chance to repair transatlantic ties if Biden were to be voted into the White House on Nov. 3, after a bruising four years under Trump.

He also announced his intention earlier this year to cut the U.S. troop contingent in Germany, faulting Berlin for failing to meet NATO's defence spending target and accusing it of taking advantage of the United States on trade. "Most allies want a Biden victory next month, but they would obviously work with a reelected Trump administration," one diplomat at NATO's Brussels headquarters said.

Two officials echoed that statement. They and the two diplomats also said that if Trump were reelected, NATO would seek to hold a summit in early summer, but that there was less urgency because he had already attended NATO summits and his position was seen as likely to harden.

 

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