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Lithuanian President Gitanas Nausėda formally endorsed 57-year-old M.Rutte in April.
His victory in the race for NATO’s top job became clear last Thursday when Romanian President Klaus Iohannis withdrew from the race.
The new secretary-general is likely to be formally elected in the coming days or weeks. Rutte will become the fourth Dutchman to become the organization’s top diplomat.
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Rutte has been head of the Dutch government since 2010, and during his tenure he decided to deploy Dutch soldiers to a NATO battalion in Lithuania.
“The largest military presence outside the Netherlands has been stationed in Lithuania for many years”, – 15 minutes said Jack Tewis Quarles van Ufford, Ambassador of the Netherlands to Lithuania.
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