Brussels, 26 January (LaPresse) – Regarding the Arctic, ‘President Trump, and I will defend him from time to time this afternoon,’ ‘because I really think he deserves it,’ had already said in the past that "there is a security problem in the Arctic and he repeated it when he returned to office. And I think he's right. There is a problem with the Arctic region. There is a collective security problem because these sea routes are opening up and because the Chinese and Russians are increasingly active." This was stated by NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte in his speech to the European Parliament's Committee on Foreign Affairs (AFET) and Committee on Security and Defence (SEDE).