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UPDATE 4-Poland blast may not be from missile fired from Russia, Biden says

Published 2022-11-16, 11:31 a/m
© Reuters.  UPDATE 4-Poland blast may not be from missile fired from Russia, Biden says

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By Nandita Bose and Trevor Hunnicutt

BALI, Nov 16 (Reuters) - The United States and its NATO allies are investigating the blast that killed two in Poland, but early information suggests it may not have been caused by a missile fired from Russia, U.S. President Joe Biden said.

Biden spoke after global leaders gathered for the G20 meeting in Bali, Indonesia, held an emergency meeting on Wednesday after deadly explosions in Poland that Ukraine and Polish authorities said were caused by Russian-made missiles.

Asked whether it was too early to say that the missile was fired from Russia, Biden said: "There is preliminary information that contests that. I don't want to say that until we completely investigate it but it is unlikely in the lines of the trajectory that it was fired from Russia but we’ll see.”

The U.S. and NATO countries would fully investigate before acting, he added.

The Meeting was convened by Biden, the White House said, after two people were killed in an explosion in Przewodow, a village in eastern Poland near the border with Ukraine.

"We agreed to support Poland's investigation into the explosion in rural Poland, near the Ukrainian border, and they're going to make sure we figure out exactly what happened," Biden said.

"And then we're going to collectively determine our next step as we investigate and proceed. There was total unanimity among folks at the table."

Leaders from the United States, Germany, Canada, Netherlands, Japan, Spain, Italy, France and the United Kingdom were taking part in the meeting.

All except for Japan are members of NATO, the defense alliance that also includes Poland.

A determination that Moscow was to blame for the blast could trigger NATO's principle of collective defense known as Article 5, in which an attack on one of the Western alliance's members is deemed an attack on all, starting deliberations on a potential military response.

Poland has said it was verifying whether it needed to request consultations under Article 4 of the alliance, which allows NATO members to bring any issue of concern, especially regarding security, for discussion at the North Atlantic Council.

Poland summoned Russia's ambassador to Warsaw for an explanation after Moscow denied it was responsible. (Reporting by Nandita Bose and Simon Lewis; Writing by Trevor Hunnicutt; Editing by Heather Timmon, Sandra Maler & Shri Navaratnam)

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