(MENAFN- Qatar News Agency) US Vice President Joe Biden and Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk met in Warsaw, discussing what Tusk called Russia's "unacceptable" annexation of Crimea. "The actual annexation of Crimea by Russia, an annexation that is unacceptable to the international community including Poland, changes overnight the borders" of Ukraine and Russia, Tusk said Tuesday at a meeting with Biden. "It increases the risk in Eastern Europe but it also has global implications." Biden was traveling to Warsaw and Vilnius, Lithuania, to "reassure our allies who are deeply concerned about Russia's aggressive actions in Ukraine and what the broader implications of those actions might be," a senior Obama administration official said Monday during a background briefing on Biden's trip. In Warsaw, Biden said NATO was committed to help Ukraine, respecting its cultural affinities and history with its neighbors. Biden said he and Tusk discussed ways to make Poland less reliant on Russian gas and that the prime minister informed him about efforts to "reverse natural gas flows" and find new sources of natural ga
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