“Our destiny will be intertwined with yours”, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio told European allies at the Munich Security Conference on Saturday, sending a strong message of US commitment to transatlantic ties.
Europe was the US “oldest friends” and the US “cherished allies”, Rubio said, adding “we want Europe to be strong”.
“We believe that Europe must survive. Because the two great wars of the last century serve for us as history’s constant reminder that ultimately our destiny is and will always be intertwined with yours,” he said.
Rubio is the highest-ranking US speaker at the annual security conference, breaking years of tradition in which Washington sent its vice-president.
Rubio called for a new alliance that would “unshackle our ingenuity, our creativity and the dynamic spirit to build a new Western century”.
“We do not seek to separate but to revitalise an old friendship and renew the greatest civilisation in human history”, he said.
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