US president likely to meet Chancellor Olaf Scholz within next week during rescheduled trip, say sources in Berlin
Joe Biden will visit Germany this week, government sources in Berlin said, after he cancelled a planned trip last week due to
The senior German officials who spoke on condition of anonymity confirmed media reports that the US president would travel to Berlin, probably within the next week, but declined to provide further details. Planning for the visit was believed to be ongoing.upended plans for a summit of the Ramstein group of countries providing weapons to Ukraine. The meeting at the US airbase of the same name would have discussed possible new aid commitments to Ukraine.
Germany had said the UK prime minister, Keir Starmer, and the French president, Emmanuel Macron, would join the event alongside Biden and Scholz, with 20 other leaders expected to attend. It is thought unlikely that such a meeting will take place during Biden’s sharply curtailed rescheduled visit, which was originally slated to last four days., had been set at the Ramstein summit to lay out a “victory plan”.
“It is a clear message to Putin – playing for time will not work. We will not let up in our support for Ukraine,” Scholz said. Germany has been theBiden’s trip to Berlin would be his first bilateral visit to Germany as president, after he attended the G7 summit at Bavaria’s Elmau castle in June 2022. The original itinerary included a trip to Angola to fulfil a promise to go to Africa as US leader.
White House spokesperson Karine Jean-Pierre acknowledged last week that there was little time remaining in Biden’s presidency to reschedule as the US prepares to elect his successor. “Three months is not a long time,” she said.
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