'Rutte: US nuclear umbrella key to NATO'

 NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte said on Monday the United States' nuclear umbrella remains "the ultimate guarantor of our freedom and security" across the alliance, including in Europe, ahead of the NATO Summit in Ankara.

Rutte said nuclear policy within NATO is determined by individual member states, describing it as "decisions by countries to lift restrictions they had in the past." He stressed that "the US nuclear umbrella is the ultimate guarantor of our freedom and security in the whole of NATO, particularly also when it comes to the European part of territory."

Rutte said, "We are really in a good place when it comes to nuclear." He also reaffirmed the United States' central role in NATO, saying the alliance now knows "much more exactly what Americans can provide," giving it a clearer picture of what members "can count on."

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