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

“They discussed the scope 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, Trump’s pick to be his national security adviser when he returns to the White House, and other members of the president-elect’s national security team.

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

Rutte, who took over as NATO chief last month, was widely regarded as one of the best European leaders to work well with Trump during his first term as US president from 2017-21.

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