Biden speech today: President wants Russia removed from G20, hopes to visit
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President Joe Biden wants Russia removed from the G20, but stressed that it is the organisation’s decision adding that an alternative would be for Ukraine to attend as an observer.
Mr Biden was speaking at a press conference at Nato Headquarters following meetings with leaders of both the alliance and the G7 in an extraordinary day of summits in Brussels over the invasion of Ukraine.
The president also said that he warned China not to help Russia or risk its economy; there would be an appropriate response to the use of chemical weapons; and that he will likely be visiting refugees at the Polish border tomorrow.
Mr Biden is now meeting with the European Council in a day focussed on allied unity.
Thursday’s meetings are to coordinate with Nato allies on military assistance for Ukraine, new sanctions on Russia, and the boosting of defences in Eastern Europe. The US has also now officially accused Russian forces of war crimes in Ukraine.
The US also announced it will welcome 100,000 refugees displaced by the Russian invasion — one of the country’s biggest refugee intakes in years.
At home, the latest polling shows the majority of Americans want the president to take a tougher stance on Russia, while his approval rating remains unchanged since the beginning of the conflict in Europe.
US military leaders have tried calling Russian counterparts but calls not taken
Lines of communication between top US Defense Department officials and their Russian counterparts have gone dark since Russia launched its unprovoked invasion of Ukraine last month, placing the world’s two nuclear superpowers in jeopardy of mischaracterising each other’s troop movements and drilling with potentially disastrous consequences.
US military leaders have tried calling Russian counterparts but calls not taken
Lines of communication between top US Defense Department officials and their Russian counterparts have gone dark since Russia launched its unprovoked invasion of Ukraine last month, placing the world’s two nuclear superpowers in jeopardy of mischaracterising each other’s troop movements and drilling with potentially disastrous consequences.
Oliver O’Connell24 March 2022 18:20
Oliver O’Connell24 March 2022 18:12
Biden says he told Xi helping Russia would put China in ‘significant jeopardy’
US President Joe Biden says he warned Chinese leader Xi Jinping that taking any steps to aid Russia’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine would put him and his country in “significant jeopardy”.
Speaking from Nato headquarters in Brussels, Mr Biden said he did not threaten Mr Xi, but “[made] sure he understood the consequences of him helping Russia”.
“I made no threats, but I pointed out the number of American and foreign corporations [that] left Russia as a consequence of their barbaric behavior,” he said.
Oliver O’Connell24 March 2022 17:58
A final shouted question about the effectiveness of sanctions.
“Sanctions never deter,” the president says, while adding it’s “the maintenance of sanctions” and “increasing the pain”…
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