WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden will meet with allies in Germany and Spain in late June as he tries to carry collectively the delicate coalition opposing Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
The White Home introduced Wednesday that Biden will journey to southern Germany on June 25 to attend a Group of Seven summit of leaders of the world’s main industrialized nations. After the assembly within the Bavarian Alps, the president will go to Madrid on June 28 to take part in a gathering of NATO member international locations.
The dual summits are being held across the four-month anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and as the US and its allies are being urged to ship longer-range and extra superior weaponry to Ukraine as Moscow appears to consolidate its features within the nation’s east.
Biden’s efforts to impose and maintain crippling sanctions on Russia are additionally going through renewed menace amid rising international inflation and provide shocks to the power and meals markets. The president additionally desires to safe admission to the NATO alliance for Sweden and Finland, however first should assist overcome opposition from NATO member Turkey.
The G-7 members are the US, Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy and Japan. Leaders will talk about their help for Ukraine, local weather change, international well being safety, and the meals and power disaster worsened by Russia’s aggression towards Ukraine, White Home press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre stated in an announcement.
NATO leaders are set to endorse plans to information the alliance’s transformation over the subsequent decade, together with strengthening deterrence and protection, addressing transnational threats resembling cyber and local weather, and deepening partnerships with democratic companions in Europe and Asia, she stated.
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