NATO's feel-good meeting aims to impress Trump


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  • Tuesday, 23 May 2017

FILE PHOTO: U.S President Donald Trump watches as Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan departs at the entrance to the West Wing of the White House in Washington, U.S. May 16, 2017. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts/File Photo

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Ribbon-cutting, jets overhead and a dinner in a new, billion-dollar headquarters: Donald Trump's first meeting at NATO on Thursday is choreographed to impress a U.S. president who called the Western alliance "obsolete".

In a fortuitous twist, a series of NATO goals including a new HQ and expansion to include new member Montenegro have coalesced around Trump's visit, which officials have kept free from the dense policy debates of their biennial summits.

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