VP Kamala Harris Heralds NATO Unity As Ukraine Crisis Grows
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Vice President Kamala Harris met Friday with NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg in Germany as the annual Munich Security Conference got underway.
Vice President Kamala Harris on Friday heralded NATO unity during the escalating Ukraine crisis and warned Russia that the U.S. and Western allies stood ready to respond with tough sanctions if President Vladimir Putin moves forward with an invasion of Ukraine.
In a meeting with NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg as the annual Munich Security Conference got underway, Vice President Harris thanked the alliance for "all that you have done" throughout the crisis.
"We remain, of course, open to and desirous of diplomacy, as it relates to the dialogue and the discussions we have had with Russia, but we are also committed, if Russia takes aggressive action, to ensure there will be severe consequence in terms of the sanctions we have discussed," Vice President Harris told Stoltenberg. "And we know the alliance is strong in that regard."
