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Trump will honor NATO commitment, Obama says

President-elect Donald Trump is committed to NATO, President Barack Obama said Monday.Trump, the Republican president-elect whose unexpected victory last week shocked other world leaders, was often critical of NATO on the campaign trail, going so far as to call it “obsolete.” Those statements, coupled with his praise of Russian leader Vladimir Putin -- with whom Trump spoke by phone on Monday -- have alarmed foreign leaders, especially in the front-line states in Eastern Europe and the Baltics.Obama, who is preparing to embark on his last trip to Europe as president, said Trump signaled when they met last week that he would not be throwing out the decades-old alliance.“He expressed a great interest in maintaining our core strategic relationships,” Obama said at his first press conference since last week’s election.

 

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