Biden in Warsaw: NATO’s collective defense principal a ‘sacred commitment’

President Biden reinforced previous comments on the duty to the collective defense principle of the NATO treaty, article 5, stating that it is a “sacred commitment.”

“We take article 5 as a sacred commitment, not a throwaway, a sacred commitment that relates to every member of NATO,” Biden said at the top of a bilateral meeting with Polish President Andrzej Duda at the Presidential Palace in Warsaw, Poland.