NATO’s Stoltenberg is not going to search one other extension of his time period – POLITICO

NATO Secretary-Common Jens Stoltenberg plans to step down from his submit as deliberate in October, his spokeswoman Oana Lungescu informed German information company Deutschen Presse-Agentur, dismissing studies of one other extension to his time period.

“He has no intention of searching for an extra extension of his mandate,” she stated.  

Welt am Sonntag reported earlier Sunday that Stoltenberg’s time period could also be prolonged once more as NATO seeks to take care of stability throughout the battle in Ukraine, the most recent in sequence of hypothesis that the NATO chief may keep on.

Stoltenberg’s time period has been prolonged thrice already, most just lately in March final yr simply after Russia invaded Ukraine. Stoltenberg, an economist by coaching, had been designated to turn into Norway’s central financial institution chief on the time.