Hurricane ‘Milton’ put a damper on his plans the week before, but on Thursday US President Joe Biden was able to fly to Germany and begin his very first bilateral visit during his term of office.
But it is a scaled-down version of a state visit. On Friday morning, he will first be received with military honors by Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier at Bellevue Palace and will then receive the “Special Level of the Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic” – the highest award that Germany can receive. donate. Of the fourteen American presidents who have governed the Federal Republic since its inception, only George Bush Sr. has been honored with this honor.
A meeting with Scholz is then planned in the Chancellery, where French President Emmanuel Macron and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer are also expected. This means that the heads of state and government of the four most powerful NATO partners and Ukraine’s most important allies are sitting together. The main topics of the round will probably be the wars in Ukraine and the Middle East.
The hurricane also prevented the Ukraine summit
Biden originally wanted to hold a major international conference with several heads of state and government at the US Ramstein air base in Rhineland-Palatinate during his visit to Germany to discuss further support for Ukraine. That won’t happen now. The White House announced that the summit in Ukraine would take place via videoconference in November.
It is Biden’s first bilateral visit to Germany in his nearly four years in office. The US president took part in the G7 summit in Elmau in 2022 and on another occasion made refueling stops at the US military base in Ramstein with his government plane, but did not dedicate a solo trip to Germany.
Source: Krone
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