Biden will journey on to Vilnius, Lithuania, on Monday evening and maintain talks with NATO leaders there
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US President Joe Biden departed on Sunday on a three-nation journey that can be dominated by a NATO summit in Lithuania aimed toward displaying solidarity with Ukraine in its struggle towards Russia whereas not but accepting Kyiv as a member of the alliance.
Biden’s first cease can be in London, the place he’ll meet British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak at 10 Downing Avenue on Monday after which journey to Windsor Fort for a go to with King Charles.
The talks with the king, anticipated to incorporate local weather initiatives, will give Biden a larger sense of the person who succeeded his mom, Queen Elizabeth, who died final September.
Biden had tea with the queen at Windsor in June 2021 and so they mentioned most of the identical points that stay a high precedence at the moment, like Russia and China.
Biden will journey on to Vilnius, Lithuania, on Monday evening and maintain talks with NATO leaders there on Tuesday and Wednesday. Biden and the allies goal to indicate help for Ukraine and provides Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskiy a way of what he must do to achieve NATO membership sooner or later sooner or later.
In a CNN interview previewing his journey, Biden urged warning for now on Ukraine’s drive to hitch NATO, saying the alliance might get drawn into the struggle with Russia on account of NATO’s mutual protection pact.
“I do not suppose there’s unanimity in NATO about whether or not or to not carry Ukraine into the NATO household now, at this second, in the midst of a struggle,” Biden mentioned.
A centerpiece of Biden’s go to to Lithuania can be a speech that he’ll ship at Vilnius College on Wednesday evening.
White Home nationwide safety adviser Jake Sullivan advised reporters the speech will cowl Biden’s imaginative and prescient of “a robust, assured America flanked by sturdy, assured allies and companions taking up the numerous challenges of our time, from Russia’s aggression in Ukraine to the local weather disaster.”
One in every of Biden’s targets on the journey is to indicate People again dwelling the significance of continuous help for Ukraine as he faces re-election. A few of his Republican rivals within the race for the November 2024 presidential elections have voiced doubts about his technique.
Stable majorities of People help offering weaponry to Ukraine to defend itself towards Russia and consider that such assist demonstrates to China and different US rivals a will to guard US pursuits and allies, in keeping with a Reuters/Ipsos survey late final month.
Biden’s final cease can be in Helsinki for talks with the leaders of the latest NATO member, Finland, and to attend a summit of US and Nordic leaders.
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