U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is welcomed by NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg at a NATO foreign ministers meeting at the Alliance's headquarters in Brussels, Belgium April 27, 2018. Virginia Mayo/Pool via Reuters
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Barely 12 hours after being sworn in U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo went straight to NATO headquarters on Friday in what European allies saw as strong support for an institution that U.S. President Donald Trump once called obsolete.
In a closed door meeting, Pompeo and fellow foreign ministers of the military pact forged a consensus on the need for a response to "Russian aggression", a U.S. official said, adding that Pompeo pressed allies to raise military budgets.
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