U.S. President Barack Obama has left Washington on a four-day European trip aimed at reassuring NATO allies of active U.S. support, as regional tensions over Russia’s role in Ukraine continue to rise.
Obama will hold a full day of talks Wednesday in the Estonian capital with the presidents of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. The meetings in Tallinn, 200 kilometers from the Russian border, come in response to mounting concerns about Russian military involvement in Ukraine and possible Russian threats to the Baltic states.
The president has described the Baltic talks as a means of showing the three former Soviet republics “that we …read more
Source: Voice of America
