Rubio: US is constantly reassessing its relationship with NATO
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What is the US Secretary of State Marco Rubio's stance on NATO?
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This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. Hello, I'm Ankur Desai and at 16 GMT on Friday the 22nd of May, these are our main stories. The US Secretary of State Marco Rubio says the United States is constantly reassessing its relationship with the NATO military alliance. Elsewhere, protests have broken out in Turkey after a university known for its liberal politics was closed by a decree from the president. And Manchester City have confirmed that their manager Pep Guardiola will leave the English football club after 10 seasons. Also in this podcast, scientists at Oxford University are working to create a new Ebola vaccine as the number of suspected cases rises to 750.
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Las Vegas is gearing up for the enhanced games, which will allow athletes to use banned substances. NATO is officially an alliance, but there's a lot right now that its members seemingly aren't aligned on. The US is upset with other nations for not doing more to help during the war with Iran. European countries, though, have had their own concerns, with Donald Trump's pressure to annex Greenland from Denmark. So when foreign ministers met in Sweden today, for the first time since the Iran war broke out, there was a lot to discuss. Before the summit, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte had some praise for the US Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
One of the big issues now, of course, is Iran, the Strait of Hormuz. I hear from many of my colleagues here that it is not acceptable that the freedom of navigation is trampled upon as it is at the moment. And we have to think how we collectively can deal with this. And I think everybody acknowledges that the United States degrading the nuclear capability of Iran, but also the long-range missile capability of Iran, is crucial for the Middle East, for Europe, for the whole world. So again, Marco, thank you for being here, for your incredible leadership, and being such a staunch supporter of our transatlantic bond.
So how did the summit go? And is the alliance any stronger now? Here's Mr Rubio speaking after it had finished.
My job here today was to come and set the stage for what will hopefully be a successful leaders meeting in Ankara in about six weeks. I think we all know what the situation here is. Number one is, like always, and this is not new. I mean, if you go back 30 years, there's never been a time in which there hasn't been a debate in American politics about what our presence and our contribution to NATO should be. And that is always driven by what is the value of NATO to the United States. I understand NATO is valuable to Europe, and it should be. It also has to be valuable to the United States. So we always have to make that argument in every administration in every era. And that's what we're in the process of doing now, is explaining, you know, this is the value of NATO to the United States.
Related to that is what our force posture is within that alliance, what our contributions are. So, obviously, one of the things that I've always used, and I've long been an advocate for NATO in my time in the Senate, and one of the arguments I always made was that these bases in the region provided us logistical options that we wouldn't otherwise have. And when some of those bases are denied to you, during a conflict that we're involved in, then you question whether that value is still there. So that's going to have to be discussed. There's no doubt about it. I think there's also going to have to be some focus on how a year after the meeting at The Hague, how much progress has been made in terms of the increased contributions.
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