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Biden says Washington still committed to protecting Baltic states
Vice President Joe Biden—Photo by Joseph Earnest
by Joseph Earnest August 23, 2016
Newscast Media WASHINGTON—Vice President Joe Biden has assured Baltic countries that Washington would respect NATO's pledge to protect them.
Biden called on the presidents of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania not to take seriously statements by Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, who said recently that he might abandon NATO's pledge to automatically defend all alliance members if elected.
Speaking in the Latvian capital, Riga, on August 23, Biden dismissed Trump's comments and said there was overwhelming U.S. bipartisan commitment to NATO.
In July, NATO leaders agreed to deploy military forces to the three Baltic states and eastern Poland for the first time and increase air and sea patrols to reassure allies in the region worried about the threat from Russia.
Biden's visit to the Baltics coincided with the 77th anniversary of the signing of the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact on August 23, 1939.
The pact carved up Eastern Europe between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union during World War II, including the annexation of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania by the Soviet Union in 1940. Add Comments>>
Source: Radio Free Europe
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