‘US committed to obligations’:
US Vice-President Joe Biden assured Baltic countries on Tuesday the United States would respect NATO’s pledge to protect them and said comments to the contrary by Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump should not be taken seriously.
Biden’s visit comes amid heightened tensions with Russia in the region and Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, has suggested that he might abandon NATO’s pledge to automatically defend all alliance members if elected.
“I want to make it absolutely clear to all the people in Baltic states: we have pledged our sacred honour, the United States of America ... to the NATO treaty and Article Five,” Biden said in the Latvian capital. Biden dismissed Trump’s comments and said there was overwhelming US bipartisan commitment to NATO. (RTRS)