Joe Biden Arrives In London For Meeting With King Charles, Sunak Ahead Of NATO Summit

Joe Biden Arrives In London For Meeting With King Charles, Sunak Ahead Of NATO Summit

Biden landed in London late Sunday on his way to a NATO summit in Lithuania. He is scheduled to hold talks with Sunak at 10 Downing St. on Monday before heading to Windsor Castle to meet with Charles for the first time since the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II in September.

President Joe Biden will discuss the environment with King Charles III and the war in Ukraine with Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.

President Bide, in an interview that aired yesterday on CNN said, Ukraine is not ready for membership in NATO, It would be “premature,” he said, to begin the process to allow the country to join the alliance in the middle of a war, because doing so would thrust all NATO members into military conflict with Russia.

Biden said that he did not think there was “unanimity in NATO about whether or not to bring Ukraine into the NATO family now,” and that the process could occur only after a peace agreement with Russia was in place. There would be “other qualifications that need to be met, including democratization,” for Ukraine to be considered for membership, he added.

The president began a trip to Europe yesterday that will include a two-day NATO summit in Vilnius, Lithuania, where Russia’s war in Ukraine — and a decision last week by the U.S. to supply Kyiv with cluster munitions that are banned by most of its allies — will be a main focus.

The main task of this NATO summit is to show the alliance’s unity and solidarity in support of Ukraine.

Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, marked the milestone with a video of his visit to a Black Sea island that has become a symbol of Ukrainian resistance.