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Maggie Haberman? @maggieNYT 1m1 minute agoTillerson will miss NATO meeting, travel to Russia in April
U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson plans to skip an April 5-6 meeting of NATO foreign ministers for a U.S. visit by the Chinese president and will travel to Russia later in the month, U.S. officials said on Monday, a step allies may see as putting Moscow's concerns ahead of theirs.
Tillerson intends to miss what would be his first meeting in Brussels with the 28 NATO members to attend President Donald Trump's expected April 6-7 talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping at Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, four current and former U.S. officials said.
The decisions to skip the NATO meeting and to visit Moscow risked feeding a perception that Trump may be putting U.S. dealings with big powers before those of smaller nations that depend on Washington for their security, said two former U.S. officials...
"It feeds this narrative that somehow the Trump administration is playing footsy with Russia," said one former U.S. official who spoke on condition of anonymity.
"You dont want to do your early business with the world's great autocrats. You want to start with the great democracies, and NATO is the security instrument of the transatlantic group of great democracies," he added.
read: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-tillerson-idUSKBN16S04I?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=Social
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I think Rachel's going to ask Adam Schiff about this after the commercial...
Cooley Hurd
Mar 2017
#1
Well at least Haberman isn't obsessed with Hillary's emails anymore like she was
still_one
Mar 2017
#7
Trump has re-defined "ethical." As in, removed the word from government's lexicon.
WinkyDink
Mar 2017
#10
Exactly, he boasted about it when he said he could shoot someone in the middle of NYC
Rhiannon12866
Mar 2017
#17
Is the whole game about greedy *CASH* or what does PU-TEEN *have* on these dudes?!1 n/t
UTUSN
Mar 2017
#13
"playing footsy with russia"?? honey, we're way past that and close to making babies.
unblock
Mar 2017
#14
there isn't a single thing or person in or associated with this administration that is NOT!
NRaleighLiberal
Mar 2017
#19
Tillerson has to represent U.S. branch operations at Kremlin Inc.'s executive review meeting
dalton99a
Mar 2017
#27