{"id":240769,"date":"2026-03-05T16:06:43","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T12:06:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=240769"},"modified":"2026-03-05T16:22:30","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T12:22:30","slug":"rutte-admits-differences-within-nato-says-it-remains-alliance-of-democracies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/240769\/","title":{"rendered":"Rutte admits differences within NATO, says it remains alliance of democracies"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte acknowledged that there are disagreements within the alliance regarding the US war against Iran.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Spain is also actively participating in NATO missions. For example, a Spanish Patriot system has been deployed in Turkey for 10 years, protecting key American interests. Yes, there are differences, but this is an alliance of democracies,&rdquo; Rutte told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/nato-allies-will-keep-supporting-ukraine-despite-situation-iran-rutte-says-2026-03-05\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reuters<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>He added that he sees broad support in Europe for the actions of the US president.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Allies are not becoming parties to the conflict, but are supporting the United States in its actions. And when disagreements arise among allies, I try to remain neutral so that I can help resolve them if necessary,&rdquo; Rutte said.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte acknowledged that there are disagreements within the alliance regarding the US war against Iran. &ldquo;Spain is also actively participating in NATO missions. For example, a Spanish Patriot system has been deployed in Turkey for 10 years, protecting key American interests. Yes, there are differences, but this is an alliance of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":240749,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,35,43,98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-240769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","category-world","category-other-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240769"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":240770,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240769\/revisions\/240770"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}