{"id":34602,"date":"2026-08-26T18:47:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T18:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/34602\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T18:47:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T18:47:11","slug":"mark-rutte-will-meet-us-defense-policy-official-in-brussels-as-nato-plans-september-military-meeting-ukraine-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/34602\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Rutte Will Meet US Defense Policy Official in Brussels as NATO Plans September Military Meeting | Ukraine news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-style:italic;font-weight:500;font-size:18px;line-height:1.5\">The Brussels talks come as Washington\u2019s top defense policy official joins NATO ambassadors, while alliance chiefs prepare for a major September gathering.<\/p>\n<p>NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte will hold talks in Brussels with US Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Elbridge Colby on August 27.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting will take place at NATO headquarters. The Alliance\u2019s press service announced the planned talks.<\/p>\n<p>During his visit to Brussels, Elbridge Colby will also attend a meeting of the North Atlantic Council together with ambassadors from NATO member states.<\/p>\n<p>NATO Military Committee Meeting in Copenhagen<\/p>\n<p>The Alliance\u2019s next major event will be a meeting of the NATO Military Committee at the level of chiefs of defence. It will be held in Copenhagen on September 18\u201319, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Brussels talks come as Washington\u2019s top defense policy official joins NATO ambassadors, while alliance chiefs prepare for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34603,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5],"tags":[18,18606,1823,350,18605,18607,18608,10647,144],"class_list":["post-34602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brussels","tag-brussels","tag-copenhagen-meeting","tag-elbridge-colby","tag-mark-rutte","tag-mark-rutte-elbridge-colby-nato-brussels-meeting-nato-military-committee-nato-defense-talks-copenhagen-meeting","tag-nato-brussels-meeting","tag-nato-defense-talks","tag-nato-military-committee","tag-news"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@be\/117163304119659492","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34602\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}