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Acting Defense Secretary Dr. Mark T. Esper speaks with NATO Deputy Secretary General Rose Gottemoeller following his welcome to NATO headquarters in Brussels for a meeting of the alliance’s defense ministers, June 26, 2019. Prior to her NATO appointment, Gottemoeller served in the U.S. State Department.

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