US Secretary of State Marco Rubio met with German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul on Monday to coordinate on global security issues and NATO reforms. The two diplomats “reiterated the shared US-Germany commitment to upholding safe transit in the Strait of Hormuz and ensuring Iran never develops or obtains a nuclear weapon,” State Department spokesman Tommy Pigott said. The high-level talks in Washington follow recent diplomatic efforts to finalise a peace deal between the US and Iran.<\/p>\n
NATO summit preparations<\/p>\n
The diplomats reviewed the upcoming NATO Summit, scheduled for July 7-8 in Ankara. Both officials emphasised the “importance of burden shifting” within the organisation \u2014 a strategy intended to ensure European partners assume primary responsibility for their own conventional defence. Rubio and Wadephul also reaffirmed their “unwavering support” for achieving a “durable peace” between Russia and Ukraine. The meeting comes amid heightened transatlantic coordination ahead of the Ankara summit, where US President Trump is expected to attend alongside other NATO leaders [citation needed]. T\u00fcrkiye, as the host nation, is preparing to welcome delegates from alliance member states and guest countries, with extensive security measures already in place [citation needed].<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US Secretary of State Marco Rubio met with German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul on Monday to coordinate on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4381,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[32,3287,7,146,71],"class_list":["post-4380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-germany","tag-hormuz","tag-nato","tag-rubio","tag-ukraine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4380\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}