Vice President Kamala Harris will visit Romania and Poland in the coming days as part of the United States’ response to Russia’s assault on Ukraine, and part of Ms Harris’s increasingly visible foreign policy role in the Biden administration after months of negative criticism.
Ms Harris has emerged as the president’s main foreign policy emissary, both before and ahead of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s assault on Ukraine. Last month, Mr Putin’s unprovoked invasion, she spoke at the Munich Security Conference and met with multiple heads of state.
When she heads to Warsaw and Bucharest, she will serve as President Joe Biden’s voice, including when she meets with Poland’s President Andrzej Duda and Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, as well as Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. On Friday, she will meet with Romania’s President Klaus Iohannis before returning to…