(ANSA-AFP) - LONDON, SEP 20 - Britain's new Prime Minister
Liz Truss on Tuesday vowed billions more in financial and
military aid to Ukraine as she kicked off her debut foreign trip
at the UN General Assembly. Ahead of her first meeting with US
President Joe Biden, Truss also conceded that a post-Brexit
UK-US trade deal was unlikely for years. "There aren't currently
any negotiations taking place with the US and I don't have an
expectation that those are going to start in the short to medium
term," she told reporters en route to New York. At the UN, Truss
is also due to meet French President Emmanuel Macron and EU
commission chief Ursula von der Leyen. Like Biden's White House,
they are unhappy with her hard line on Brexit and Northern
Ireland. But Truss vowed to rally Western support at the UN over
Ukraine, saying her government would match or exceed the £2.3
billion ($2.6 billion) it plans to extend this year. (ANSA-AFP).
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