(7 Nov 2024)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Budapest, Hungary – 7 November 2024
1. Mart Rutte, Secretary General of NATO, arriving
2. SOUNBITE (English) Mark Rutte, Secretary General of NATO:
"First of all, of course, I want to congratulate again President Trump upon his re-election. It was a really a huge success for him, including capturing the House and the Senate. I look forward to working with him again. When he was president, he was the one in NATO who stimulated us to move over the 2%. And now, also thanks to him – NATO, if you take out the membership of the US for a moment, is above 2%. And this is very much his doing, his success and we need to do more. We know this."
3. Cutaway of Rutte with reporters
4. SOUNBITE (English), Mark Rutte, Secretary General of NATO:
"Today, very much in my mind and this meeting is what is happening now with North Koreans being deployed in Russia. I see more and more North Korea, Iran, China, and, of course, Russia working together and working together against Ukraine. But at the same time, Russia has to pay for this. And one of the things they are doing is delivering technology to North Korea, which is now threatening the future, the mainland of the US, continental Europe, but also our partners in the Indo-Pacific, Japan, for example, and the Republic of Korea."
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5. SOUNBITE (English), Mark Rutte, Secretary General of NATO:
"I’m sure that when it comes to defence, when it comes to foreign policy, that Germany will be able to conduct its foreign policy, fulfil its obligations in terms of defence, etc.. So I’m not worried about that. Olaf Scholz is a strong leader. I know him very well. So I think he will navigate during the coming months, making sure that Germany plays its role on the world stage."
6. Cutaway of Rutte with media
7. SOUNBITE (English) Mark Rutte, Secretary General of NATO:
"We have to work not only (against) the threat of Russia but also the fact that these four countries work together and that now very soon we will see that the US itself is under threat from these newest technological developments thanks to Russia giving its latest insights in technology to the North Koreans."
8. Cutaway of Rutte with media
9. SOUNBITE (English) Mark Rutte, Secretary General of NATO:
"Russia is delivering the latest technology into North Korea in return for North Korean help with the war against Ukraine and that is a threat not only to the European part of NATO but also to the US mainland and that means that the Indo-Pacific and the Euro-Atlantic, but particularly also within NATO – US, Canada and the European part of NATO – have to work together."
10. Arrival of Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy with Hungarian leader Viktor Orban walks past reporters and Evika Siliņa, Latvian Prime Minister
STORYLINE:
Around 50 European leaders, including Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte, will be reassessing their trans-Atlantic relations in the hope that the Donald Trump’s second US presidency will avoid the strife and political pitfalls of his first administration.
Arriving for a summit of European leaders in the Hungarian capital, Budapest, Rutte said he was looking forward to working with Trump again.
"When he was president, he was the one in NATO who stimulated us to move over the 2%…. this is very much his doing, his success," he told reporters.
He said a major topic at the summit would be the prospect of Russia, North Korea, Iran, China working together.
Rutte said he had confidence in Scholz and Germany’s role on the world stage.
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