{"id":1080,"date":"2022-03-21T23:24:19","date_gmt":"2022-03-21T23:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/linksus.net\/white-house-biden-to-visit-poland-on-europe-trip-this-week-the-associated-press-en-espanol\/"},"modified":"2022-03-21T23:24:19","modified_gmt":"2022-03-21T23:24:19","slug":"white-house-biden-to-visit-poland-on-europe-trip-this-week-the-associated-press-en-espanol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/2022\/03\/21\/white-house-biden-to-visit-poland-on-europe-trip-this-week-the-associated-press-en-espanol\/","title":{"rendered":"White House: Biden to visit Poland on Europe trip this week – The Associated Press – en Espa\u00f1ol"},"content":{"rendered":"

WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 President Joe Biden will thank Poland\u2019s president for the country\u2019s efforts to shelter Ukrainian refugees as part of his trip this week to Europe as Russian forces bear down in a nearly-month old invasion.
Poland is a crucial ally in the Ukraine crisis<\/a>. It is hosting thousands of American troops and is taking in more people fleeing the war in Ukraine \u2014 more than 2 million \u2014 than any other nation in the midst of the largest European refugee crisis<\/a> in decades.
Biden will head to Warsaw for a bilateral meeting with President Andrzej Duda scheduled for Saturday. Biden will discuss how the U.S., along with its allies and partners, is responding to the humanitarian and human rights crisis that Russia\u2019s unjustified and unprovoked war on Ukraine has created. It\u2019s possible, too, that the president will visit a refugee camp.
Poland is \u201can important partner as we work to remain unified in the weeks and months ahead,\u201d White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Monday.
Biden added the stop to his critical trip to Brussels this week for urgent talks with NATO and European allies. On Monday, European leaders of France, Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom spoke for about an hour, discussing \u201cRussia\u2019s brutal tactics in Ukraine, including its attacks on civilians, the White House said. They also reviewed recent diplomatic efforts in support of Ukraine\u2019s effort to reach a ceasefire. Paski said she though the leaders would continue to be in touch routinely on the conflict.
She said the White House also remained in touch with Ukrainian officials.
\u201dWe convey we support any diplomatic effort,\u201d but the role the U.S. can play is through a broad range of military assistance and economic sanctions levied against Russia, she said.
Biden will not travel to Ukraine. \u201cWe have not explored that option,\u201d Psaki said. Aside from the massive security concerns sending Biden into a warzone, the president felt he could make a more \u201ceffective and impactful\u201d trip by meeting with other NATO leaders on how to help Ukraine.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken, while in Poland this month, briefly crossed into neighboring Ukraine in a show of solidarity alongside that country\u2019s foreign minister, Dmytro Kuleba. Poland has been one of the most vocal countries in asking fellow NATO members to consider getting more involved to rein in the bloodshed.
Russian President Vladimir Putin\u2019s invasion of Ukraine largely has united the U.S. and NATO and European allies, as well as allies in Asia and elsewhere. The United States and European governments see Moscow\u2019s military aggression as a threat to their security and strategic interests.
Biden and NATO have said repeatedly that while the U.S. and NATO will provide weapons and other defensive support to non-NATO member Ukraine, they are determined to avoid any escalation on behalf of Kyiv that risks a broader war with Russia.
The Pentagon on March 9 rejected a Polish proposal for providing Ukraine with MiG fighter jets via a NATO air base, saying allied efforts against the Russian invasion should focus on more useful weaponry and that the MiG transfer with a U.S. and NATO connection would run a \u201chigh risk\u201d of escalating the war.
Ukraine\u2019s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, has pleaded for the U.S. to provide his military with more aircraft and advanced air-defense systems. NATO and the United States have rejected his appeals to establish a \u201cno-fly zone\u201d over Ukraine to suppress Russian air power, saying it would put Western forces in direct conflict with Russian ones.
Determined resistance by Ukrainian fighters when Russian tanks and troops rolled into Ukraine in late February quickly defeated Russian forces\u2019 attempts to storm Ukraine\u2019s capital and unseat the westward-looking government. Denied an easy and early victory, Russia\u2019s military is reverting to the scorched earth tactics of its past offensives in Syria and Chechnya, and pounding population centers with airstrikes and artillery barrages that leave civilians like those in the port city of Mariupol able to safely venture out for food or water, to bury the dead, or to flee.
After Biden rallied European allies to join in sweeping sanctions against Russia over the invasion at the outset, his tasks now include dealing with some NATO members that are pushing for more involvement directly in the fighting. That includes proposals by Poland for peacekeepers.
Biden\u2019s trip includes a summit Thursday of NATO leaders, who will use the meeting to look at strengthening the bloc\u2019s own deterrence and defense, immediately and in the long term, to deal with the now openly confrontational Putin.
Biden also will participate in a European Council summit to discuss the allies\u2019 sanctions on Russia and humanitarian efforts for the millions of Ukraine\u2019s people displaced by Russia\u2019s attacks, Psaki said last week.
His agenda includes a meeting of leaders of the the Group of Seven countries to discuss the punishing financial and economic penalties that the West and its allies have leveled on Russia over its invasion, Psaki said.<\/p>\n

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