Kamala Harris To Attend Munich Security Meet
Washington, Feb 18: US Vice President Kamala Harris will arrive in Germany this weekend to attend the Munich security meet amid rising tension with Russian over the Ukraine crises.
Experts believe that Harris will face her toughest foreign policy assignment yet as she will try to keep United States’ European allies unified amid growing concern over the threat of a Russian invasion of Ukraine, and growing divisions among the NATO allies on how to deal with the situation, the Week reported.
This security meet is taking place at a time when US President Joe Biden and several other Western leaders have warned that the threat of a Russian invasion of Ukraine still remains high despite Russian President Vladimir Putin saying that he is committed to further talks and that some of his troops have already withdrawn from the border with Ukraine.
The latter Russian claim has been disputed by the White House, which has claimed that intelligence shows Russia has added an additional 7,000 troops near Ukraine in recent days and has stepped up preparations for potential false flag operations that could be used as a pretext to start a war.
Harris is scheduled to meet with NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg and will be holding a multilateral meeting with the leaders of the Baltic states of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia on the margins of the Munich conference.
On Saturday VP Harris is scheduled to deliver a major address on the Biden administration’s efforts to stop the Russian aggression and later meet Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz. According to White House press secretary Jen Psaki Harris will at the conference, “convey to the rest of the world again America’s ironclad commitment to our NATO allies, our commitment to defending the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Ukraine, and our commitment to putting in place severe economic consequences should Russia invade.”
