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Anonymous ID: e7ca85 June 14, 2021, 6:31 p.m. No.13905427   🗄️.is 🔗kun

''After answering five questions over 25 minutes, Biden left. He never explained why he was late.''

 

Betsy Woodruff Swan contributed to this report.

 

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/06/14/ukraine-biden-nato-press-c

FOREIGN POLICY

 

Ukrainian tweet scrambles Biden's press conference

For a few short minutes, it appeared Ukraine was on the path to NATO membership but that was not to be.

 

Joe Biden pauses while speaking at a NATO summit in Brussels.

President Joe Biden pauses before speaking during a media conference at a NATO summit in Brussels, Monday, June 14, 2021. | Olivier Hoslet/Pool via AP

 

By ANITA KUMAR

 

06/14/2021 07:39 PM EDT

 

BRUSSELS — Just before President Joe Biden started his news conference Monday, Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky tweeted that NATO agreed that his country could join the alliance.

 

"Commend @NATO partners' understanding of all the risks and challenges we face," he wrote. "NATO leaders confirmed that will become a member of the Alliance."

 

Biden was inexplicably running late, two hours late, and the tweet suddenly appeared to explain what could be causing a delay.

 

Two days before Biden is scheduled to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin, news of Ukraine joining NATO would have sent a strong message to Russia. In 2014, Russia annexed Crimea from Ukraine and began supporting separatists in the country, Russia has continued to amass troops along the Ukrainian border.

 

On Twitter, foreign policy experts and journalists began to question what Ukraine's announcement meant and what Biden would say. Some began to speculate Putin would cancel the meeting.

 

NATO, a 30-member alliance, was formed in 1949 to counter the Soviet Union. It pledge that an attack against one country is an attack against them all.

 

When Biden finally appeared in front of the cameras, he said NATO would stand behind Ukraine's "sovereignty and territorial integrity," but didn't mention the country joining the alliance. It quickly became clear that Ukraine had overstated what happened by not including when the country might be admitted.

Anonymous ID: e7ca85 June 14, 2021, 7:09 p.m. No.13905682   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5699

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