Obama traveled to Poland to attend the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation. These included the Readiness Action Plan, a plan to ensure more troops are posted in eastern Europe and that more forces are readily available in the event of a crisis.
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Moscow has declared its intention to deploy nuclear-capable missiles in Kaliningrad, a Russian enclave between Poland and Lithuania, in response to NATO’s activation of a US -built missile shield on Polish soil.
President Barack Obama is in Poland to huddle with European Union leaders and discuss how the 28-member body plans to disentangle Britain from its ranks. The alliance recently agreed to bolster its presence in the east by deploying four multinational battalions on a rotational basis to Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland.
Although the USA has keen interest in the talks, the president’s words have limited impact and influence.
He called Poland “a lynchpin in the defense of NATO’s eastern flank”.
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg (C) poses with officials and military personnel in front of …
While the summit has a broad focus, which includes the Middle East, top of the agenda is Russian Federation. Both have headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, though some nations belong to only one organization.
Vance said he couldn’t say how long they would stay.
The European Council President Donald Tusk says that unity of the Western world is the key to Europe’s security and well-being.
President Obama boards Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base before departing for Warsaw, Poland, on July 7, 2016. “They have to be responsive and move more quickly with minimal bureaucracy to deliver real economic progress in the lives of ordinary people”.
In addition to attending the NATO Summit at Warsaw in Poland, Obama would also meet the Ukrainian president along with leaders of the UK, Germany, France, and Italy.
President Barack Obama pauses as he makes a statement on the fatal police shootings of two black men in Louisiana and Minnesota after arriving in Warsaw, Poland, Friday, July 8, 2016.
Security efforts are most heavily concentrated at the stadium, which has been encircled by a metal barrier, and high around hotels hosting the many VIPs.
Many city streets are also blocked and some city transport routes altered, inconveniencing many city residents.
The airspace over Warsaw is also being monitored closely, with a ban on flights in a 100-kilometer (60-mile) radius from the stadium. Violators face the risk of being shot down.
“Russia is not looking (for an enemy) but it actually sees it happening”, Peskov told reporters in Moscow.
Outside Europe, the future of the military alliance’s operations beyond its borders is also very much on the agenda.
An official pre-summit statement declares that “the world has become more volatile and unsafe with Russia’s illegal annexation of Crimea and destabilization of eastern Ukraine”.
Stoltenbeg said: “No one was talking about reinforcing deterrence” before the aggressive action in Crimea. “I believe this approach, with defence and dialogue, is the only viable long-term approach to Russian Federation”.
“For our nations to be safe, it’s not enough to keep our defenses strong, we must help to make our partners stronger”, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said.
Von der Leyen said Poland and the Baltic states want greater protection because Russia’s 2014 annexation of Crimea from Ukraine shows Moscow “doesn’t respect borders”.
Even with such a proliferation of issues, including a resurgent Taliban in Afghanistan and Iran’s ballistic missile arsenal, the two-day summit will be dominated by NATO’s response to Russian Federation and a conflict in Ukraine that the West accuses Moscow of fomenting at a cost of more than 9,000 lives.
Obama discussed the procedure for Britain’s withdrawal with the heads of the main European Union institutions, Donald Tusk and Jean-Claude Juncker, and was assured there would be an orderly transition to as close an economic relationship as possible and no punishment of Britain, Rhodes told reporters. The result was the near-total destruction of Warsaw and the death of up to 200,000 civilians.
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The NATO summit in Warsaw is being held in a district of Warsaw that Poles view as a symbol of Russian betrayal of their nation.
