Western allies should assist finish Vladimir Putin’s ‘financial blackmail’ by decreasing dependence on Russian vitality, Liz Truss will insist as she launches a frenzied diplomatic blitz in the USA this week.
The Prime Minister arrived in New York final night time for the annual United Nations Common Meeting (UNGA), the place she’s going to meet world leaders together with US President Joe Biden and French President Emmanuel Macron.
Ms Truss will search to make use of her first journey overseas as prime minister to induce her counterparts to not backtrack on their assist for Ukraine, warning that the entire world suffers when a regime like Putin’s is allowed to “bully and blackmail neighbors”, his spokesperson stated. .
In an announcement earlier than the meeting, the Prime Minister stated: “By closing the faucets on the Nord Stream fuel pipeline, Putin despatched tens of millions of individuals to Europe to a colder and harder winter.
“Too many lives – in Ukraine, in Europe and all over the world – are manipulated by a reliance on Russian vitality. We should work collectively to finish this as soon as and for all.
Ms Truss’ personal proposals to carry the fracking ban in a bid to offer the UK with higher vitality safety following The Russian invasion of Ukraine had been slammed yesterday by his high local weather change adviser, Lord Deben.
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Whereas Ms Truss will give attention to Ukraine, she is anticipated to face a troublesome first assembly with French President Emmanuel Macron, whom she couldn’t say is a “pal or foe”.
The problem of the Northern Eire Protocol is anticipated to be among the many most important matters to be mentioned in bilateral talks later right this moment and tomorrow when she meets European Fee President Ursula von der Leyen.
The Prime Minister’s spokesman stated Ms Truss needed to construct a “constructive relationship with President Macron, and we now have a long-standing ally in France”.
He added: “We wish to attain a negotiated resolution, that’s our aim. However we’re progressing in parallel with the [Northern Ireland Protocol] Invoice as a result of the UK place stays that the established order hurts the Good Friday Settlement and we have to discover a resolution.
The query can be anticipated to be raised when Ms Truss meets President Biden for the primary time as a British chief. The couple had been as a result of maintain an unofficial assembly on Sunday earlier than the Queen’s funeralhowever that has been postponed and they’ll interact in full bilateral talks on Wednesday.
Ms Truss will even use her time in New York to fulfill with US firms and is anticipated to host a roundtable with greater than a dozen buyers as she seeks to make post-Brexit Britain a greater place to do enterprise .
