Senate revives NATO observer mission after decade-long hiatus
Source: Washington Post
By Karoun Demirjian February 28 at 8:09 PM
Senators are resuscitating an observer mission to NATO that has been defunct for over a decade in the latest effort from Congress to affirm its commitment for the nearly 70-year-old alliance at a time when the president’s support for it is in question.
Sens. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) and Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) announced the reconfiguration of the Senate NATO Observer Group on Wednesday afternoon, stressing that Senate leaders, senior officials from the State and Defense departments, as well as U.S. Ambassador to NATO Kay Bailey Hutchison, were fully behind the effort.
But the senators said they had not yet secured the express buy-in of the White House and President Trump — whose own comments about traditional security alliances such as NATO have not always been in lockstep with those of his administration.
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