Ukraine-Russia, Biden to Poland: “For the USA article 5 NATO is sacred”

For the United States, Article 5 of NATO is “a sacred commitment”. This is what Joe Biden said at the beginning of his bilateral meeting today in the presidential palace in Warsaw with the president of Poland, Andrzej Duda. The Polish head of state “the great sense of threat” that the country has been experiencing since the Russian invasion of neighboring Ukraine began. Biden reiterated that the Alliance article binding collective defense in the event of an attack on a member state is “a sacred obligation” for Washington: “You can count on this – he concluded – for your and our freedom” . Biden then underlined the need for the US and Poland to remain “in close contact”, repeating that President Putin “was counting on a division within NATO” which did not happen. For his part, Duda spoke of a “relationship. flourishing “between Washington and Warsaw, underlining that Poland is” a serious ally “. And finally, he thanked Biden for his visit to Poland which “immensely strengthens” relations between the two countries.