During his trip to the United States, British Foreign Secretary David Cameron tried to persuade former President Donald Trump to unblock aid to Ukraine, but was unsuccessful.
This is reported by The Guardian.
According to the newspaper's sources, during a private dinner at Trump's residence in Florida, Cameron emphasized that by the NATO Summit in Washington in July this year, each NATO member would develop plans to reach or pass the target of defence spending. He hoped that Trump would signal a change of course, at least by easing his way to a meeting with House Speaker Mike Johnson.
Trump's campaign team said that the dinner discussed "the upcoming US and UK elections, policy matters specific to Brexit, the need for Nato countries to meet their defence-spending requirements and ending the killing in Ukraine."
At a joint press conference in Washington on Tuesday, David Cameron and U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken repeated their longstanding calls for Congress to unblock aid.
According to columnist, Cameron's arguments run up against the continued power struggle inside the Republican party, as hardliners, who have cooled on continuing to support Ukraine financially, threaten to oust Johnson if he puts the aid package to a vote when Congress returns from its two-week vacation.
"David Cameron’s attempt to persuade Donald Trump to permit the US Congress to push through $60bn in military aid for Ukraine appears to have failed, after the British foreign secretary was not even granted a meeting with congressional speaker Mike Johnson," the newspaper summarizes.
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