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The new Secretary General of NATO may be an ethnic Ukrainian, the current Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister of Canada, Christy Freeland. This is reported by the Canadian TV channel CBC.
“There are several highly qualified women who could be very good candidates. It seems that there is some momentum for a woman to become the next secretary General,” the TV channel reports the words of an unnamed senior NATO official.
The channel notes that at least four sources from Belgium, the United States and Canada stated that Freeland’s candidacy is being discussed as a successor to Jens Stoltenberg. Among its advantages are knowledge of the Russian language and “the peculiarities of the Kremlin’s work.”
In order to “push” a Canadian politician to this position, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will have to actively spend his political capital, the channel notes. “Lobbying and arm-twisting” will be done in Washington, London, Paris and Berlin.
Recall that the current Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg was supposed to resign on October 1, 2022, but his powers were decided to be extended until September 30, 2023.
Freeland is 54 years old. Her father had English and Scottish roots, her mother was born in Germany in a Ukrainian family.