Obama Says Brexit Vote ‘to Stick’ in Blow to Pro-EU Holdouts
- President urges U.K., EU to negotiate ‘orderly’ departure
- ‘Important that neither side harden positions,’ Obama says
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President Barack Obama said he expects the U.K. will abide by the wishes of British voters and carry out plans to leave the European Union, and urged both sides to conduct the departure with minimal disruption.
“We have to assume that a referendum having been passed with a lot of attention” and relatively high participation rate “is going to stick,” Obama said Saturday in Warsaw, after meetings with leaders of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. “Our primary interest is to make sure that the negotiations and the process is as orderly as possible.”