The G7 and NATO leaders, who met on Wednesday, agreed “unanimously” to support Poland’s investigation to determine “exactly what happened.”
US President Joe Biden said Wednesday that It is “unlikely” that the missile that caused an explosion in Poland was fired from Russianear the border with Ukraine, and announced that the G7 and NATO will support the investigation of the Polish government into the incident before taking “more steps.”
Asked by the press about whether the missile was fired by Russia, Biden stated: “There is a lot of information that contradicts that.. I don’t want to say until we fully investigate, but it’s unlikely due to the trajectory that it was fired from Russia.”
The US president made these statements at the end of a meeting of the G7 and NATO leaders on the sidelines of the G20 summit, which is being held on the Indonesian island of Bali.
At that meeting, the leaders agreed “unanimously” to support Poland’s investigation to determine “exactly what happened” before taking “further steps” collectively, explained the president.
During the meeting, according to Biden, the leaders of the G7 and NATO also they addressed the “brutal” and “inhumane” attacks that Russia has launched in the last few hours against different regions of Ukraine, including the capital, and which have caused significant power outages.
“At a time when the world has come together at the G20 summit to urge a de-escalation, Russia continues to choose the escalation (of war) in Ukraine. There were wreckage and missile remnants in western Ukraine. We stand with Ukraine right now and we will do whatever it takes for them to defend themselves,” Biden stressed.
The meeting of the leaders of the G7 and NATO took place at the Grand Hyatt hotel in Bali where Biden is staying.
In addition to the American, the meeting was attended by the German Chancellor, Olaf Scholz; the Prime Ministers of Canada, the United Kingdom, Italy and Japan, Justin Trudeau, Rishi Sunak, Giorgia Meloni and Kishida Fumio, respectively; and the French president, Emmanuel Macron; G7 member countries.
The leaders of Spain and the Netherlands, Pedro Sánchez and Mark Rutte, also participateNATO countries also present at the G20 summit as guests of this forum, as well as the president of the European Commission (EC), Ursula von der Leyen, and the president of the European Council, Charles Michel, reported the White House.
In consultations on the incident in Poland, the next step is an emergency NATO meeting to be held this Wednesday in Brussels. at the request of the Polish Government.
Poland is studying invoke Article 4 of NATOaccording to which the allies “will consult each other when, in the opinion of any of them, the territorial integrity, political independence or security of any of the Parties is threatened”.
The Government of Poland attributed this Wednesday to a “Russian-made missile” the explosion registered on Tuesday in the east of the country near the border with Ukraine that caused two deaths, and summoned the Russian ambassador in Warsaw.