President-elect Donald Trump met Friday in Palm Beach with Mark Rutte, the secretary general of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and one of the latest leaders to come to Mar-a-Lago to meet with Trump. The pair "discussed the range of global security issues facing the Alliance," NATO said in a news release.

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte met with President-elect Donald Trump in Palm Beach, Fla., on Saturday to discuss global security issues.

BRUSSELS (Reuters) -NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte met U.S. President-elect Donald Trump in Palm Beach, Florida, on Friday, a spokesperson for the transatlantic military alliance said on Saturday.

The meeting comes amid growing fears among NATO members that the U.S. president-elect could destabilize the defense alliance.

In a brief statement, NATO said Trump and its secretary general, Mark Rutte, met on Friday in Palm Beach, Florida.

President-elect Donald Trump met with NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte at Mar-a-Lago as the organization fears a shakeup following his victory. The meeting, first revealed in a statement late on Saturday, took place on Friday. The statement said that the two “discussed the range of global security issues facing the Alliance.”

NATO chief Mark Rutte is visiting U.S. President-elect Donald Trump at his residence in Florida, Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf reported on Friday, citing sources.

A NATO spokesperson says NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte and President-elect Donald Trump discussed the range of “global security issues” facing the alliance.

NATO chief Mark Rutte held talks with Donald Trump in Florida on the "global security issues facing the alliance," a spokeswoman said Saturday.