{"id":42149,"date":"2024-04-09T08:24:22","date_gmt":"2024-04-09T08:24:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=42149"},"modified":"2026-07-08T02:22:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T02:22:15","slug":"cameron-meets-trump-amid-push-to-shore-up-ukraine-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2024\/04\/09\/cameron-meets-trump-amid-push-to-shore-up-ukraine-support\/","title":{"rendered":"Cameron meets Trump amid push to shore up Ukraine support"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>David Cameron has held talks with Donald Trump in Florida amid a push to shore up support for Ukraine and advance a new package of aid that is held up in Congress.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a statement on Monday, a Foreign Office spokesperson said:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ahead of his visit to Washington, the foreign secretary will meet former President Trump in Florida today. It is standard practice for ministers to meet with opposition candidates as part of their routine international engagement.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cameron\u2019s discussion with the presumptive Republican presidential candidate, believed to be the first such meeting by a senior UK minister with Trump since he left office, covered Ukraine, the war in Gaza and the future of Nato,\u00a0according to a report in the Telegraph.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump has repeatedly\u00a0voiced misgivings about aid to Ukraine\u00a0and questioned America\u2019s commitment to Nato, the international alliance which the US has committed to defending when necessary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On his visit to Washington, Cameron will warn that success for Kyiv in defeating Russia is \u201cvital for American and European security\u201d as he urges lawmakers across to approve \u201curgent\u201d further assistance for the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He will hold talks with his US counterpart, Antony Blinken, the national security adviser, Jake Sullivan, and the Senate Republican leader, Mitch McConnell, and is hoping to meet the House speaker, Mike Johnson, whose\u00a0colleagues are preventing the vote\u00a0on an extra $60bn (\u00a347bn) of Ukraine aid. He is not scheduled to meet US president Joe Biden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lord Cameron will push for\u00a0Ukraine\u00a0to be given the resources needed to \u201cgo on the offensive\u201d in 2025 and will urge congressional leaders to \u201cchange the narrative\u201d on support for Kyiv, the Foreign Office said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Cameron has held talks with Donald Trump in Florida amid a push to shore up support for Ukraine and advance a new package of aid that is held up in Congress. In a statement on Monday, a Foreign Office spokesperson said: Ahead of his visit to Washington, the foreign secretary will meet former President [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":42150,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[461,12],"tags":[6850,6728,8311,5178,6044,6693,1677,7910,11954,9505,5321,3577,2629,10769,10954,2471,5342,9833,10795,6864,10500,7693,4802,12727,3805,11377,6944,3457,5655,8501,9277,9030,12605,5180,184,6348,11331,5251,2354],"class_list":["post-42149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-world-news","tag-aid","tag-alliance","tag-antony-blinken","tag-biden","tag-blinken","tag-congress","tag-david-cameron","tag-defeating-russia","tag-engagement","tag-european","tag-florida","tag-future","tag-gaza","tag-house-speaker","tag-international","tag-joe-biden","tag-kyiv","tag-meeting","tag-mike-johnson","tag-ministers","tag-mitch-mcconnell","tag-national-security","tag-nato","tag-package","tag-president","tag-presidential","tag-republican","tag-russia","tag-security","tag-senate","tag-speaker","tag-success","tag-uk","tag-ukraine","tag-united-states-president-donald-john-trump-jr","tag-us","tag-us-president","tag-war","tag-washington"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42149"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42151,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42149\/revisions\/42151"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}