Secretary of State Rex Tillerson prior to a meeting with Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir at the State Department on March 23. (Nicholas Kamm/AFP/Getty Images)NATO has rescheduled its upcoming foreign-ministers meeting to accommodate Secretary of State Rex Tillerson after Tillerson said he was unable to attend on the original April 5 date. That criticism was compounded amid reports that Tillerson plans to travel to Moscow in mid-April. The administration has been under bipartisan fire for President Trump’s stated desire to improve relations with Russia and his declaration of NATO as “obsolete” during his campaign. In an indication of competing priorities, Tillerson has been criticized and depicted as irrelevant for failing to attend Trump’s meetings with visiting foreign leaders.

Source: Washington Post March 24, 2017 22:17 UTC