BRUSSELS, May 6. /TASS/. The North Atlantic Council approved the nomination of US Army General Christopher Cavoli as the military bloc’s supreme allied commander in Europe, NATO said in a statement released on Friday.

"The North Atlantic Council has approved the nomination of General Christopher G. Cavoli, United States Army, to the post of Supreme Allied Commander Europe," the statement reads.

Cavoli will take up this post in the summer of 2022 upon completion of national confirmation processes in each of the bloc’s member states to succeed another US general, Tod Wolters, NATO said.

The post of NATO’s supreme allied commander in Europe is traditionally assigned to US generals, since Washington has no intention to place its troops stationed in Europe under the command of the EU’s top military brass.