Biden Takes America Is Back Message to Brussels
Voice of America
15 Jun 2021, 06:05 GMT+10
BRUSSELS - Joe Biden took his America is Back message to Brussels, reaffirming the United States commitment to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, in his first NATO summit as U.S. president Monday. I just want all of Europe to know that the United States is there. The United States is there, Biden said in his meeting with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg.
Biden said that he takes Article Five, which enshrines the military alliance s collective defense principle, as a sacred obligation. I constantly remind Americans, that when America was attacked for the first time in its shores since what happened back - it began in World War II, NATO stepped up, Biden said referring to the September 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center in New York.
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President Biden took part in his first in-person North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) summit on Monday. The president traveled to Brussels for the NATO meeting after he wrapped up a three-day meeting with the Group of Seven nations on Sunday
BRUSSELS - President Joe Biden arrived at the 2021 North Atlantic Treaty Organization summit on Monday looking to renew U.S. allies abroad for better coordination against China and Russia, while underscoring the country’s commitment to the alliance that was frequently maligned during the presidency of Donald Trump.
“It is a sacred commitment. NATO stands together,” Mr. Biden told reporters. “That is how we’ve met every other threat in the past. It is our great strength.”
Members of the 30-member North Atlantic Treaty Organization spent much of the first day focused on the rise in cyberattacks from China and Russia, along with those two countries’ growing military strength.
NATO issued a statement Monday describing Russia as a “threat” and highlighted the “challenges” posed by China’s ambitious military buildup.
“China is rapidly expanding its nuclear arsenal with more warheads and a larger number of sophisticated delivery systems to establish a nuclear triad,” the statement read.