US Secretary of State Marco Rubio will not attend the NATO foreign ministers’ meeting in Brussels on December 3, Reuters reports.
According to reports, the United States will be represented at the meeting by Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau.
The agency called Rubio’s absence from the upcoming meeting “highly unusual,” emphasizing that it “will raise new questions about Washington’s commitment to European security.”
The agency did not specify the reason for Rubio’s absence from the NATO foreign ministers’ meeting.
On November 10, NATO’s press service announced that the alliance’s foreign ministers’ meeting would take place on December 3 in Brussels, with the program currently being agreed upon.