U.S. Vice President Joe Biden will visit Romania, the NATO member state’s President Traian Basescu said, without specifying a date. Biden, will be travelling to Bucharest next week according to sources quoted by Mediafax.
“There were talks about organizing a high-level meeting between Romania and the United States of America before the events in Ukraine but recent happenings have accelerated the procedures”, according to the sources.
The same sources indicate that Joe Biden’s visit to Romania will happen sometime next week, towards the weekend most likely.
The event will be part of a series of meetings that Biden will have with leaders in the region.
Earlier on Monday, Basescu met U.S. Central Intelligence Agency deputy director Avril Haines earlier in the day in Bucharest “to discuss the situation in the region”, Basescu’s office said on its website.
Any country that adopts hostile measures towards Russia, especially closing off its airspace to Russian planes, needs to know that it will become the target for a retaliation, according to Aleksei Puskov, head of the International Affairs Commission of the Russian Duma.
“Any state that enforces hostile actions towards Russia must be aware that it will become the target of a retaliation of the same nature. If we feel that Russia is being pressured, especially by affecting governmental flights, it’s time to show we are capable of the same”, Puskov said on Monday.
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