Starmer will demand from Biden the promised $20 billion for Ukraine before the arrival of Trump – Telegraph

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer will demand that US President Joe Biden transfer $20 billion to Ukraine. – part of the 50 billion dollars agreed by the G7, promised by the United States. – before Donald Trump came to power, reports the British publication The Telegraph, writes UNN.

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“Keir Starmer should urge Joe Biden to allocate funds for a $20 billion loan for Ukraine before Donald Trump takes office,” the newspaper writes.

The British prime minister is reportedly pushing for one-on-one talks with outgoing US president Biden when they both attend the G20 summit in Brazil next week.

The G20 summit in Rio de Janeiro at the beginning of next week, according to the publication, could be of decisive importance, as allies discuss accelerating support for Ukraine. Starmer, Biden and Macron will be there.

London’s lobbying is aimed at ensuring that the G7 countries – Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Great Britain and the USA – all fulfill previous promises of new loans to Ukraine.

In June, G7 world leaders agreed to provide Ukraine with $50 billion in loans, partially financed by interest earned on Russian assets seized after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.

The US promised to provide $20 billion of this $50 billion, but it has not yet been provided. Reports from the United States last month indicated that the money was being prepared for issuance this year, the newspaper writes.

One Whitehall insider close to the political discussions said Britain was prepared to “hold Biden’s feet to the fire” for the promise.

Negotiations for Strumer’s meetings at the G20 summit have yet to be finalized and announced, but Downing Street and the country’s foreign ministry officials expect a bilateral meeting with Biden to be agreed.

David Lammy, the foreign secretary, is expected to make the same case for the loan pledge at the G7 foreign ministers’ meeting in Rome later this month.

According to the publication, Starmer is also expected to say that “Ukraine should finally be given permission to launch long-range Storm Shadow missiles deep into Russia, which Biden opposes.”

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Keir Starmer and Emmanuel Macron, the French president, discussed changing the US position on Storm Shadow during talks in Paris on Monday, The Telegraph reported. The two leaders spent 20 minutes talking face-to-face about Ukraine, while a wider delegation of aides was not present in the room – a sign of the political sensitivity of the discussions, the newspaper said.

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Starmer was persistently asked if he had discussed the Storm Shadow missiles with Macron while speaking to reporters on the plane to the Cop 29 UN climate change summit in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan.

Sir Kiir said: “I have always said that we will support Ukraine as long as it takes, and we are sticking to that. I have also said repeatedly that we need to put Ukraine in the best possible position.”

“That’s been my constant refrain in the four months since I became prime minister in all the discussions I’ve had. That’s the essence of the discussions we’ve had.”

However, the British Prime Minister refused to go into the details of any discussions on operational military issues.