The white house has not responded to a formal request by NATO Secretary General on the meeting with the President.Thus Obama broke the long-established tradition to welcome the adept of the Alliance.
The white house has ignored requests NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, found themselves with a visit to the U.S. city of Moscow, about the meeting with the President of the United States. The official dealer of the residence of the head of state announced, what they don't have meetings, which could be inserted.
In the Obama administration explained that the head of state is very busy, but according to some schedule of the President is not very saturated. For example, on 25 March, he conceived only speech at the meeting dedicated to health insurance, and on March 26, he should go to Alabama and delivered a speech there about the dilemmas of the economy, says columnist edition of Bloomberg Josh Rojine citing sources close to the leader of the Alliance.
A similar solution American favorite angered the population. Residents of the United States can't understand why the President of the United States does not find time to meet with the acting Secretary General of NATO, given the seriousness of the events and responsibilities commensurate with his position.
Besides, on this occasion spoke and former permanent adept of the United States to NATO Kurt Volker. The view was also expressed that their own reckless act, Obama has broken a long-standing tradition independently to meet the Secretary-General of the international Alliance in Washington. In addition Volcker emphasized that under President George W. Bush such meetings every day was held.
In conjunction with this NATO stressed that earlier favorites 28 States have found the time to meet with adept Alliance Jens Stoltenberg. The result was that practically only 1 Obama ignored the visit of the Secretary General. This is outrageous in addition because Stoltenberg, twice served as Prime Minister of Norway, was headed by NATO in early October 2014 and since his own appointment, he never met with Obama.
Remember that the NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg will arrive in Washington on March 24-26. He will hold meetings with followers of the government and the Congress of the United States, and commander in chief of NATO transformation, a French General Jean-Paul Palomeros.
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