NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg views positively the likely choice of the Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte as his successor, according to NATO’s press service. During a conversation with the media in Washington on June 18 at a joint press conference with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Stoltenberg noted that since he does not choose his successor, he will not make statements about who will become the new NATO Secretary General. However, he expressed the view that the bloc members are close to completion on the issue of the next head of the Alliance. This was influenced, in particu…