The Dutch foreign minister stood down on Tuesday after admitting lying about a meeting in which he claimed President Vladimir Putin had laid out his aim for a “Greater Russia”.
The resignation of Halbe Zijlstra, a key ally of Dutch prime minister Mark Rutte, could weaken the Netherlands’ fragile four-party coalition government after only four months in office.
Mr Zijlstra on Monday admitted he had not told the truth in 2016 when he claimed that 10 years earlier he had heard Mr Putin express his expansionist ambitions at a meeting at the president’s dacha near Moscow.
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