In a speech at the Munich Security Conference, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has said that the United States and Europe "belong together."

"America is chartering the path for a new century of prosperity and we want to do it together with you our cherished allies and oldest friends," Rubio said in his keynote address at Munich's luxury Bayerischer Hof hotel.

Acting together with Europe, he said, "will help restore a sane foreign policy."

Rubio's speech has been widely anticipated amid a frayed transatlantic alliance and after last year's speech by US Vice President JD Vance who lambasted European leaders for their role in what he described as the erosion of democracy on the continent.

Addressing talk of a possible transatlantic divorce, Rubio said that "this is neither our goal nor our wish."

We don't need to dismantle the global institutions of the old order that together we built -- but these must be reformed, Rubio told the conference. The US under Trump, he said, wants to lead world "restoration."

Rubio is leading the US delegation -- the largest ever, comprising more than a quarter of the US Senate -- to the three-day annual event, which features hundreds of prominent European leaders, lawmakers, military officials, academics, and others.

A report written by the organizers and published ahead of the conference spoke of the advent of "wrecking ball politics" and declared, "The most powerful of those who take the axe to existing rules and institutions is US President Donald Trump."

The conference comes amid worldwide upheaval, including the possibility of US air strikes on Iran and Russia's war in Ukraine nearing its fourth anniversary.

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Rubio: US And Europe 'Belong Together'

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