NATO members have tentative agreement to extend Secretary-General Stoltenberg’s tenure another year

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Washington -NATO members reached a temporary agreement ask the Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg to ask him remain at the beginning of a year further. The authority, who is not authorized to comment openly and speaks on condition of anonymity, said that decision should still be concluded by members of alliance. NATO members are planned to be held on July 11-12 in Vilnius, Lithuania. The president Joe Biden moved to Stoltenberg at his last meetings in the White House, and there would be no consensus in the near term to choose a new permanent leader between NATO allies. Stoltenberg, former Norwegian Prime Minister, has been NATO's best civilian official since 2014.The term of office would end last year, but in February, Russia was extended for the second time to hold a regular hand after full -scale Ukrainian invasion.2022. Senate Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H.Nato, a senior member of Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and the good news for allies." “I think Stoltenberg has proved that NATO's difficulties have emerged in the last few years,” Shaheen said.Species are really critical to protect the leaders." Biden clearly stated that he would welcome Stoltenberg for a longer time - especially in visibility war in Ukraine and with difficulty of approved Sweden as a member alliance.. Douglas Lute, who served as the US Ambassador to NATO under President Barack Obama, said that Stoltenberg's extension his term of office offers NATO the least way resistance. Lute said, "The thing that alliance does not need at the moment, lack of solidarity about who will achieve it." "The simplest thing is its expansion." Biden, Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen'den talked more.Nato, woman wants to name top pole and Denmark's prime minister was thought to be a favorite after meeting with Biden at beginning of this month, but said that he did not call public in public.British Defense Minister Ben Wallace on behalf of Biden lobbying. Fredeksen faced hard head winds. Stoltenberg's predecessor Anders Fogh Rasmussen, according to Danish.ABD official, Polish officials want the next Secretary General to come from the Baltic state. Assronian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas appeared as the candidate. The US official also insists that some members become a former president of Wallace for Wallace. - Associated Press writer Chris Megerian contributed to reporting.