Vice President Mike Pence sought on Saturday to assure Europe that the United States will back NATO even as it looks for new ways to cooperate with Russia, but was greeted by muted applause by European allies unnerved by President Donald Trump.
In Pence’s first major foreign policy address for the new Trump administration, the vice president told European leaders and ministers that he spoke for Trump when he promised an ‘unwavering’ commitment to the NATO military alliance.
Trump’s contradictory remarks on the value of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, scepticism of the 2015 deal to curb Iran’s nuclear ambitions and an …read more
Source: Gulf times
