US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken will travel to Belgium, Poland, the Baltic states and Moldova from March 3 to 8 to reaffirm US support for Russia, the State Department said.
Blinken will leave the United States on Thursday, making a first stop in Brussels for meetings with his European Union and NATO counterparts to “discuss the global response to Russia’s invasion” of Ukraine, the bloc said. announcement.
On March 5, Blinken will travel to Poland, which is at the forefront of welcoming refugees fleeing Ukraine after the Russian invasion.
Blinken will discuss with the Polish leadership “additional security assistance in the face of Russia’s ongoing attack” on Ukraine, according to the State Department.
“He will also thank Poland for generously welcoming hundreds of thousands of displaced people from Ukraine and will discuss how the United States can increase its humanitarian assistance to those fleeing Putin’s war.”
According to the latest report released by the UN today, Poland has accepted more than 450,000 Ukrainians, more than half of the refugees who have fled Ukraine since February 24.
Polish Prime Minister Matthew Morawiecki recently said he feared a Russian attack on Poland, Finland or the Baltic states. NATO is committed to strengthening its military in the eastern wing of the North Atlantic Alliance, mainly in the Baltic states (Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia), Poland and Romania.
Blinken will then travel to Chisinau, Moldova, with Western leaders talking about the danger of seeing Moscow’s attack on Kiev expand into this former Soviet republic between Romania and Ukraine, which is accepting influx of Ukrainian refugees.
Moldova has a separatist territory that is friendly to Russia, Transnistria.
Moldovan President Maya Santou was elected in 2020 with a pro-Western agenda.
Blinken “will discuss support for Moldova’s efforts to accept and assist refugees fleeing Russian invasion of Ukraine, as well as US support for Moldova’s democracy, sovereignty and territorial integrity,” the statement said. of the State Department.
Finally, the US Secretary of State will travel to the Baltic capitals, Vilnius on March 6, Riga and Tallinn on March 8.
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