{"id":356651,"date":"2026-09-25T12:44:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T12:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/356651\/"},"modified":"2026-09-25T12:44:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T12:44:11","slug":"nato-secretary-general-joins-world-leaders-in-new-york-during-unga-commemorates-25th-anniversary-of-9-11-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/356651\/","title":{"rendered":"NATO Secretary General joins world leaders in New York during UNGA, commemorates 25th anniversary of 9\/11 attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte visited New York during the 81st General Assembly of the United Nations (UNGA) from Wednesday to Thursday, 23 \u2013 24 September 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Rutte met political leaders and senior officials, holding discussions with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, \u200bPolish Foreign Minister Rados\u0142aw Sikorski, Crown Prince of Kuwait Sabah Al-Khalid Al-Sabah, and former New York mayor Mike Bloomberg, among others.<\/p>\n<p>During his visit,\u200bThe Secretary General delivered a speech commemorating the \u200b25th anniversary of the attacks on the United States on 9\/11 at an event hosted by the 9\/11 Memorial &amp; Museum. Mr Rutte recalled the Allied response to the tragedy, invoking NATO\u2019s Article 5 for the first and only time in history as a \u201ctestament to the solidarity that is the core of the NATO Alliance.\u201d He recalled NATO\u2019s active role in the aftermath of the attacks and underlined that NATO Allies continue to stand together today: \u201cWe remain united in our determination to safeguard freedom, protect from aggression, and ensure an attack like 9\/11 will never ever happen again.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte visited New York during the 81st General Assembly of the United Nations (UNGA)&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":356652,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9,24,55,54,56],"class_list":["post-356651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-ny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=356651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356651\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/356652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}