NUSA DUA, Indonesia (AP) President Joe Biden called an “emergency” meeting of G7 and NATO leaders in Indonesia Wednesday morning for consultations after NATO-ally Poland said a “Russian-made” missile killed two people in the eastern part of its country near the Ukraine border.
attack on one is considered an attack on all. polish government set the increase the readiness of some military units following that explosion. presidential biden again, currently in bali for the g20 summit. he met with the president of china s today, calling a gathering of world leaders and response to this incident today in poland, and he s walking out right now. let s hear from the president. thanks for being here. as you saw, i just met with leaders of nato and the g7. we talked about the latest events in europe. i briefed them on my discussion with president duda of poland as well as nato secretary general stoltenberg. we agreed to support police investigation into the explosion in rural poland near the ukraine border, and will make sure that we figure out exactly what happened. our empathy and sympathy goes out to the two people killed, and then we will collectively determine our next step as we investigate and proceed. this total unanimity among the folks at the table. we will
reporter: well, we did hear from president biden before he departed bali several years ago on air force 1 back to the united states but he s been in touch with the nato secretary general as well as with the polish president to say nothing of the meeting. the emergency meeting he had here with allied leaders, the u.k., canada, japan, france, among them. so the latest best information is now coming as you noted from president duda of poland saying it appears most likely this was an unfortunate accident in his words and not an intentional attack. he says it is most likely this was caused by ukrainian air defense systems there but he did not lay any blame on the side of ukrainians, that they were simply trying to defend themselves. we did hear from the president alongside those g 7 and nato leaders who were meeting together today among them, their comment being they will fully
the trajectory that it was fired from russia. but, we ll see. we never see president biden in a t-shirt in a hotel room like in this photo but he phoned poland s president duda right away as the leaders considered the implications of a potential russian attack against a nato partner. there was some chatter of him invoking nato s article 4, which would be a formal consultation when a member feels threatened. also make sure this didn t call for possible invoking of article 5. where the military alliance would launch a military response. poland s duda says what happened is an isolated incident. there is no indication that more will take place. the north atlantic alliance is on standby. we have strengthened the readiness of the polished armed forces including the air defenses. our planes will be supported by allied planes. we act calmly and peru did he wantly. the very crafted schedule of g-20 events yesterday was thrown completely out the window as the
within an hour he d spoken to the defence secretary he d spoken to president duda of poland. the diaries of the prime ministers and the presidency were shredded in the light of the news coming from europe, and meetings were hastily arranged, not least the g7 leaders present here and those in the nato defence alliance, including the uk and rishi sunak. they met for around about 45 minutes. it was after that that president biden suggested that us intelligence, it seems, pointed towards the fact that it was unlikely that this explosion in poland was caused by a missile that had come from russia. strikingly, mr sunak wouldn t be drawn publicly about what he thinks, what the uk thinks, might have happened. take a look at this. my exchange with the british prime minister in a news conference as this summit closed.