{"id":613,"date":"2024-06-20T14:01:32","date_gmt":"2024-06-20T14:01:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=613"},"modified":"2024-06-20T14:01:32","modified_gmt":"2024-06-20T14:01:32","slug":"romania-backs-mark-rutte-for-nato-top-job-as-klaus-iohannis-withdraws-from-the-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=613","title":{"rendered":"Romania backs Mark Rutte for NATO top job as Klaus Iohannis withdraws from the race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Romanian president <strong>Klaus Iohannis<\/strong> officially withdrew his candidacy for NATO\u2019s secretary general position, the Presidential Administration <a href=\"https:\/\/www.presidency.ro\/ro\/media\/comunicate-de-presa\/sedinta-consiliului-suprem-de-aparare-a-tarii1718883520\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announced<\/a> after Thursday\u2019s meeting of the Supreme Council of National Defence (CSAT). At the same time, Romania now supports the bid of Dutch prime minister Mark Rutte for the Alliance\u2019s top job.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the CSAT meeting, the president of Romania announced that he had informed NATO allies, at the end of last week, about the withdrawal of his candidacy for the position of secretary general of the Organization,\u201d the Romanian Presidency said in a press release.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPresident Klaus Iohannis asked the members of the Council to make a decision on the candidacy of Mark Rutte for the position of Secretary General of NATO, and they declared themselves in favor of Romania&#8217;s support of the Dutch prime minister&#8217;s candidacy,\u201d the same source stated.<\/p>\n<p>Romanian president\u00a0Klaus Iohannis\u00a0officially announced his bid for the position of NATO secretary general in March this year.\u00a0However, as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/mark-rutte-will-be-natos-next-secretary-general\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Politico<\/a> notes, when he declared his candidacy in March, two-thirds of all NATO allies had already sided with Rutte. Thus, as both Hungary and Slovakia also endorsed Mark Rutte\u2019s bid this week, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.romania-insider.com\/iohannis-no-allies-nato-job-jun-2024\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Romanian leader was no longer left with no official ally<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>irina.marica@romania-insider.com<\/p>\n<p>(Photo source: Inquam Photos\/Alex Nicodim)<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Romanian president Klaus Iohannis officially withdrew his candidacy for NATO\u2019s secretary general position, the Presidential Administration announced after Thursday\u2019s meeting of the Supreme Council of National Defence (CSAT). At the same time, Romania now supports the bid of Dutch prime minister Mark Rutte for the Alliance\u2019s top job. \u201cIn the CSAT meeting, the president of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}