Rubio expected to skip NATO talks next week: sources

WASHINGTON: US Secretary of State Marco Rubio will skip next week’s meeting of NATO foreign ministers despite allies’ concerns about a US plan for Ukraine, sources familiar with the issue said. It is highly unusual for the top diplomat of the United States, the linchpin of the transatlantic alliance, to skip the annual December meeting — and even more striking as the agenda is set to be dominated by discussions about the intensive US diplomacy on the war in Ukraine.

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