Jens Stoltenberg steps down as NATO Secretary General

CNN: NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg plans to step down in fall 2023NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg will step down in the fall of 2023. He told the TV channel about it. CNN . The official hopes that the alliance will find a suitable person for the position of general secretary.Stoltenberg also noted that he was not going to use the information about the resignation for his own purposes, so the likelihood of him being in office after an eventual departure is unlikely. At the moment, he is concentrating on helping Ukraine. Recall that Stoltenberg planned to leave the position on October 1, 2022.Previously, Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, Dmitry Medvedev, commented on the statement by NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, who said that the risk of victory for Russia was much higher than the risk of escalation of the conflict in Ukraine. According to him, Stoltenberg meant by this that from now on the risk of starting a third world war is much lower than the risk of victory for Moscow.In addition, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, during a working trip to Seoul, discussed the nuclear threat from the Russian Federation and China in order to strengthen the exchange of data on security issues. regional security with South Korea. His objective is very clear: he wants to involve Seoul in cooperation with NATO.