In a brief statement, NATO said Trump and its secretary general, Mark Rutte, met on Friday in Palm Beach, Florida.

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte met U.S. President-elect Donald Trump in Palm Beach, Florida, on Friday, a spokesperson for the transatlantic military alliance said on Saturday.

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte met President-elect Donald Trump in Florida as Europe waits apprehensively to see how the next administration will approach the war in Ukraine.

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte met US President-elect Donald Trump in Florida on Friday. "They discussed the range of global security issues facing the alliance," NATO spokeswoman Farah Dakhlallah told dpa.

NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte earlier expressed willingness to meet Donald Trump at his Florida estate. President-elect Trump is expected to again push NATO members to ramp up defense expenditures in his second term.

Mark Rutte, the NATO Secretary General, travelled to Florida to meet with the US President-elect Donald Trump at his Mar-a-Lago residence. This information was reported by the Dutch newspaper "De Telegraaf.