Biden on NATO

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Biden threatened Romania to block its NATO entry
August 28, 2008
SERBIANNA

Former US ambassador to Romania Jim Rosapepe says that he witnessed Obama's vice-presidential pick, Joseph Biden, shout at Romanian officials of whom he was seeking information on Serbia and its politics in order to inflict political and diplomatic damage.

Rosapepe says that the most extraordinary meeting Biden and him had was with the president of the Romanian Senate, Petre Roman, whom Biden met before but this time "Biden grilled him on Serbian politics" and Roman "helped defeat Milosevic in the 2000 elections".

However, when Biden asked the Romanian delegation why Romania seeks NATO membership, Biden was offended at the answer.

"'If we're in NATO,'" Romanian said "'we won't have to worry about NATO attacking Romania over our relations with our Hungarian minority the way you attacked Yugoslavia. Since Turkey has been in NATO for decades, you let them do what they want with the Kurdish minority.'"

Biden got visibly angry that former communist Romania has an existential reason for joining NATO so Biden "rose from his chair, leaned across the table and said: 'If that's why you want to get into NATO, I'll make sure you never do!'" writes Rosapepe.

Biden has long been on the payroll of Kosovo Albanian extremists so that he can lend support for their desire to annex Serbian province.

During the ongoing Democratic Convention, Biden met with the separatists.