TOKYO (Reuters – Ukraine’s crisis is a global problem and not a local one,” Joe Biden, the U.S. president, said Tuesday at a Tokyo meeting for the Quad grouping.

It’s not just an issue in Europe. Biden stated that it was a worldwide issue.

Washington was determined to stand alongside its “close domestic partner” and promote a free Indo-Pacific. He stated that Russia’s attack on Ukraine “only increases the importance of these fundamental principles of international order and territorial integrity, sovereignty, and sovereignty.”

Biden will meet with other leaders from the “Quad”, Japan, Australia, and India in Tokyo on the last day of his first Asia trip since taking office.