Outgoing Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte said on Saturday he would be interested in succeeding Jens Stoltenberg as secretary-general of NATO, although he only saw a small chance of being picked for the job. "Such a role would be interesting as it would offer the chance to contribute for a few years on the international stage in a period of dramatic global changes," Rutte said in an interview with radio station Den Haag FM. "But there is a very big chance, given the political support for it, that this job will go to a European woman, which would also be very good."
lot more gratitude and recognition of everything that has been achieved rather than what he still wants. i think he goes home having spoken to his public. that s one of the points that the british defense secretary made. look, we understand you re speaking to your people after a lot of blood has been spilled and with a lot of pressure on you. he s also recognized all that s been done and gone home, i think, reinvigorated. you have the secretary general of nato and president biden echoing how galvanized nato comes out of the summit. i think ukraine goes home with a clear message not just that it s going to continue to get all the military capabilities it gets from the f-16s to cluster bombs, but also perhaps more importantly, the political, economic backing its getting to make sure it s clear to moscow as well that kyiv is on the side
on the nato summit in lithuania. i think we still have frank gardner on the line. i want to throw you another question, if i can. how far do you think nato countries, their commitment ukraine will go? look, if i had the answer commitment ukraine will go? look, if i had the answer to commitment ukraine will go? look, if i had the answer to that, commitment ukraine will go? look, if i had the answer to that, i commitment ukraine will go? look, if i had the answer to that, i would - commitment ukraine will go? look, if i had the answer to that, i would be i i had the answer to that, i would be the secretary general of nato, i think! there is a real debate over this. and they are not united on it. there are some countries which are much keener than others, the baltic states for example, lithuania, latvia, poland and estonia, they are keen to bring ukraine in as quickly as possible. they say it has the most powerful army in europe right now, they ll battle tested, they are on our si
threatened that russia is directly threatened that russia is directly threatened by nato s ever eastwards expansion and that this will be the final straw that provokes him into something absolutely hideous that could trigger a global war. now, i think the expectation, the belief is in most western capitals that most of the time, president putin has been bluffing and rattling the nuclear sabre, been bluffing and rattling the nuclearsabre, but been bluffing and rattling the nuclear sabre, but we understand that china has asked him notjust don t use nuclear weapons, don t even talk about them. we have had 78 years of no nuclear weapons being used in anger, let s keep it that way, the world is a safer place like that. that s quite a lot of difference over how and how quickly ukraine should join, but the secretary general of nato, jens stoltenberg, saying it is inevitable, it is going to happen, it is a question of when and not if. these are the live pictures of stansted airport in the sout