NATO leaders gather Tuesday for what could be a historic summit, or one marred by divisions
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FILE - Belgium's Prime Minister Paul-Henri Spaak, seated center, signs the North Atlantic Pact in Washington, DC, April 4, 1949, flanked by Belgium's Ambassador to the U.S., Baron Silvercruys, left, and John W. Foley of the U.S. State Department. Seated behind, from left, are Britain's Ernest Bevin, Norway's Halvard Lange, Luxembourg's Joseph Bech, Iceland's Bjarni Benediktsson, Denmark's Gustav Rasmussen, U.S. President Harry S. Truman, U.S. Secretary of State Dean Acheson; Canada's Lester Pearson, France's Robert Schuman, Italy's Count Carlo Spforza, Holland's Dirk Stikker and Portugal's Jose Caeiro Da Matta. (AP Photo, File)FILE - NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte speaks during a media conference prior to a meeting of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group at the NATO headquarters in Brussels, Wednesday, June 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo, File)International flags on the venue ahead of the upcoming NATO summit in The Hague, Netherlands, Monday, June 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Patrick Post)FILE - Belgium's Prime Minister Alexander De Croo, right, and Belgium's Defense Minister Ludivine Dedonder, left, pose with Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in front of an F-16 at Melsbroek military airport in Brussels, on May 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo, File)FILE - The Washington Treaty on display during a ceremony to mark the 75th anniversary of NATO at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Thursday, April 4, 2024. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert, File)
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FILE - Belgium's Prime Minister Paul-Henri Spaak, seated center, signs the North Atlantic Pact in Washington, DC, April 4, 1949, flanked by Belgium's Ambassador to the U.S., Baron Silvercruys, left, and John W. Foley of the U.S. State Department. Seated behind, from left, are Britain's Ernest Bevin, Norway's Halvard Lange, Luxembourg's Joseph Bech, Iceland's Bjarni Benediktsson, Denmark's Gustav Rasmussen, U.S. President Harry S. Truman, U.S. Secretary of State Dean Acheson; Canada's Lester Pearson, France's Robert Schuman, Italy's Count Carlo Spforza, Holland's Dirk Stikker and Portugal's Jose Caeiro Da Matta. (AP Photo, File)