US President Joe Biden will embark on a diplomatic tour of Europe from today 9 to 13 July, visiting Britain, the NATO summit in Lithuania and then Finland.
The US leader's three-country tour aims to "demonstrate the president's leadership on the world stage" at a critical time in the war in Ukraine. His national security adviser, Jake Sullivan, said the trip would "demonstrate the president's leadership on the world stage."
Biden will meet King Charles III and British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak in London to "strengthen the close ties" that unite Britain and the United States, his spokeswoman Karin Jean-Pierre said. Biden will then travel to Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania, to attend a NATO summit on July 11 and 12, his spokeswoman said, according to the news release.
For the last stop of his trip, in Helsinki, Joe Biden will go to a summit between American leaders and their Nordic counterparts on July 13.