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Mark Rutte, the outgoing prime minister of the Netherlands and future Secretary General of NATO, called for continued support for Ukraine in his farewell speech to Dutch lawmakers on Sunday. Rutte said that the shooting down of the passenger flight MH17 by a Russian missile over eastern Ukraine in the summer of 2014 made him realize how “crucial it is that our country is embedded in the EU and NATO.” Most of the 298 people killed on board the flight, which was headed from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, were Dutch citizens. Rutte was officially appointed the next Secretary General of NATO a few day…

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