NATO’s new Secretary General Mark Rutte has said he will prepare the alliance for the challenges of the future.
“The first priority is to keep NATO a strong organisation, to ensure effective defence against all threats,” RIA Novosti quoted him as saying.
Rutte noted that this requires “a faster pace of innovation.”
On 1 October, outgoing NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg handed over his powers to the new head of the alliance, Mark Rutte.