Joe Biden meets Eastern European leaders in Warsaw to reaffirm US support
US President Joe Biden meets on Wednesday, in Warsaw, with the group of nine leaders of NATO member countries from Central and Eastern Europe, in the presence of the Secretary General of the North Atlantic Alliance, Jens Stoltenberg, to reaffirm their "unwavering" support of Washington in front of Moscow, one day after the bellicose speech of Russian President Vladimir Putin, reports Agerpres.
Biden "will meet with the leaders of the Bucharest Format 9 (B9), a group of NATO allies on our eastern flank, in the presence of NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, to reaffirm the unwavering support of the US for the security of the Alliance", reads a statement of the White House. This demonstration of support, scheduled to take place at the presidential palace in Warsaw, aims to renew guarantees for the nine countries (Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Hungary), whose common point is that they were part of the former Soviet bloc or the Warsaw Pact and are on NATO's eastern flank, AFP comments.
