NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte met with US President-elect Donald Trump in Palm Beach, Florida on Friday, a spokesperson for the transatlantic military alliance said on Saturday.

“They discussed the range of global security issues facing the Alliance,” spokeswoman Farah Dakhlallah said in a brief statement.

On its website, NATO said Rutte and his team also met with Congressman Mike Waltz, chosen by Trump to be his national security adviser upon his return to the White House, as well as other members of the president-elect’s national security team.

NATO did not respond to requests for comment on Friday on Dutch media reports that Rutte – a former prime minister of the Netherlands – had traveled to Florida on a Dutch government plane to meet Trump.

Rutte, who took over as NATO chief last month, was widely seen as one of the best European leaders to have established a good working relationship with Trump during his first term as US president from 2017 to 2021.

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