Play FacebookTwitterEmbed Tillerson to skip NATO meeting: Reuters 3:05 autoplay autoplay Copy this code to your website or blogHowever, Tillerson is instead sending the State Department`s second-most senior official, Tom Shannon, to the key NATO meeting on April 5-6.
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg will also attend.
However, Tillerson will travel later in the month to a series of unspecified meetings in Russia, a State Department spokesman confirmed to NBC News.
The uncertainty threatened to deepen late Monday when U.S. officials said that Secretary of State Rex Tillerson planned to skip what would have been his first official meeting with NATO in April.
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson (C) Kevin Lamarque / Reuters / ReutersThe spokesman said Tillerson would meet almost all of the alliance`s members Wednesday when the Coalition to Defeat ISIS gathers in Washington.
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