PARIS: President Joe Biden on Saturday vowed Washington was “standing robust” with Ukraine as French counterpart Emmanuel Macron hosted him on a state go to shadowed by Kyiv’s battle towards Russia‘s invasion and the looming US election.
Talking after visiting Normandy earlier this week to mark 80 years since D-Day, Biden repeatedly emphasised the worth of America’s European alliances in a swipe at his extra isolationist election rival Donald Trump.
With Ukraine struggling to repel Russian advances over two years into the battle and in determined want of larger Western navy assist, Biden insisted that underneath his rule the USA wouldn’t flinch in its assist.
“Putin will not be going to cease at Ukraine,” Biden stated alongside Macron after talks on the Elysee Palace.
“All of Europe shall be threatened, we’re not going to let that occur,” Biden stated.
“The US is standing robust with Ukraine. We is not going to, I say it once more, stroll away,” he added.
Biden, 81, is ready to face his Republican rival and predecessor Trump later this 12 months in presidential elections that commentators predict will topic US democracy to a extreme check.
Trump has additionally signalled his lack of curiosity in worldwide organisations together with Nato and beforehand boasted he may remedy the Ukraine battle inside 24 hours if elected.
Macron, 46, emphasised the unity with the USA underneath Biden and expressed gratitude for his counterpart’s strategy to Europe.
“I thanks, Mr President, for being the president of the world’s primary energy however doing it with the loyalty of a associate who likes and respects the Europeans,” he stated.
He stated Paris and Washington additionally shared the identical views on Iran, accusing Tehran of pursuing a “technique of escalation in any respect ranges”.
“Our two international locations are decided to exert the mandatory strain to cease this development,” he stated.
Biden has been in France since Wednesday and took half on this week’s commemorations marking the eightieth anniversary of the D-Day landings in northern France involving US, British, Canadian and different overseas troops that modified the course of World Battle II.
Additionally invited to the ceremonies was Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who instructed Biden in a bilateral assembly Friday that Kyiv was relying on “shoulder-to-shoulder” assist.
Expressing remorse over how an assist bundle for Ukraine was held up within the US legislature, Biden stated: “I want we may have accomplished it once we wished to 6 months earlier however we acquired it accomplished.”
The US and France are two of Kyiv’s essential Western backers since Russia unleashed its full-scale invasion of its neighbour in February 2022.
The US chief met Macron for talks on the Elysee Palace, with the 2 males seen speaking one-to-one at a desk within the Elysee gardens underneath a sunshade on a heat Paris June afternoon.
“France was our first buddy,” Biden stated, referring to French assist within the Battle of Independence towards British colonial rule. “And stays one among our greatest ones,” he added.
Throughout a welcome ceremony in Paris, Macron and Biden laid a wreath and rekindled the flame on the tomb of the Unknown Soldier on the Arc de Triomphe.
They then drove down the Champs-Elysees, decked out within the colors of the 2 nations, flanked by 140 horses and 38 motorcyclists.
The US president and his spouse Jill had been later to return to the Elysee Palace for a state banquet given in Biden’s honour.
The week of high-profile occasions has supplied each Biden and Macron a possibility to burnish their picture with voters.
Macron’s camp has confronted an uphill battle to slim a niche with the far proper forward of European Parliament elections on Sunday.
After his personal talks with Zelenskyy in Paris on Friday night, Macron stated he wished to “finalise” the creation of a coalition of navy instructors to coach Ukrainian troops within the coming days.
Macron additionally lashed out at what he known as a “camp of pacifists” and the “spirit of defeat” over Ukraine’s battle towards Russia, vowing Ukrainian resistance wouldn’t finish with capitulation.
Talking after visiting Normandy earlier this week to mark 80 years since D-Day, Biden repeatedly emphasised the worth of America’s European alliances in a swipe at his extra isolationist election rival Donald Trump.
With Ukraine struggling to repel Russian advances over two years into the battle and in determined want of larger Western navy assist, Biden insisted that underneath his rule the USA wouldn’t flinch in its assist.
“Putin will not be going to cease at Ukraine,” Biden stated alongside Macron after talks on the Elysee Palace.
“All of Europe shall be threatened, we’re not going to let that occur,” Biden stated.
“The US is standing robust with Ukraine. We is not going to, I say it once more, stroll away,” he added.
Biden, 81, is ready to face his Republican rival and predecessor Trump later this 12 months in presidential elections that commentators predict will topic US democracy to a extreme check.
Trump has additionally signalled his lack of curiosity in worldwide organisations together with Nato and beforehand boasted he may remedy the Ukraine battle inside 24 hours if elected.
Macron, 46, emphasised the unity with the USA underneath Biden and expressed gratitude for his counterpart’s strategy to Europe.
“I thanks, Mr President, for being the president of the world’s primary energy however doing it with the loyalty of a associate who likes and respects the Europeans,” he stated.
He stated Paris and Washington additionally shared the identical views on Iran, accusing Tehran of pursuing a “technique of escalation in any respect ranges”.
“Our two international locations are decided to exert the mandatory strain to cease this development,” he stated.
Biden has been in France since Wednesday and took half on this week’s commemorations marking the eightieth anniversary of the D-Day landings in northern France involving US, British, Canadian and different overseas troops that modified the course of World Battle II.
Additionally invited to the ceremonies was Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who instructed Biden in a bilateral assembly Friday that Kyiv was relying on “shoulder-to-shoulder” assist.
Expressing remorse over how an assist bundle for Ukraine was held up within the US legislature, Biden stated: “I want we may have accomplished it once we wished to 6 months earlier however we acquired it accomplished.”
The US and France are two of Kyiv’s essential Western backers since Russia unleashed its full-scale invasion of its neighbour in February 2022.
The US chief met Macron for talks on the Elysee Palace, with the 2 males seen speaking one-to-one at a desk within the Elysee gardens underneath a sunshade on a heat Paris June afternoon.
“France was our first buddy,” Biden stated, referring to French assist within the Battle of Independence towards British colonial rule. “And stays one among our greatest ones,” he added.
Throughout a welcome ceremony in Paris, Macron and Biden laid a wreath and rekindled the flame on the tomb of the Unknown Soldier on the Arc de Triomphe.
They then drove down the Champs-Elysees, decked out within the colors of the 2 nations, flanked by 140 horses and 38 motorcyclists.
The US president and his spouse Jill had been later to return to the Elysee Palace for a state banquet given in Biden’s honour.
The week of high-profile occasions has supplied each Biden and Macron a possibility to burnish their picture with voters.
Macron’s camp has confronted an uphill battle to slim a niche with the far proper forward of European Parliament elections on Sunday.
After his personal talks with Zelenskyy in Paris on Friday night, Macron stated he wished to “finalise” the creation of a coalition of navy instructors to coach Ukrainian troops within the coming days.
Macron additionally lashed out at what he known as a “camp of pacifists” and the “spirit of defeat” over Ukraine’s battle towards Russia, vowing Ukrainian resistance wouldn’t finish with capitulation.
