London, Thanasis Gavos

Received by the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Rishi Sunak in Downing Street today will be the President of the USA Joe Biden, who arrived in London last night making a stop before the NATO summit in Vilnius.

President Biden will later meet with King Charles at Windsor Castle.

On the agenda of the meeting with Mr. Sunak will be the “exchange of notes” on the war in Ukraine and the Ukrainian counterattack against the Russians, as the American President himself stated.

Matters related to the climate crisis will be discussed with King Charles.

The visit, which will conclude in the afternoon, provides the opportunity for the fifth Biden-Sunak meeting in as many months. Nevertheless, it comes at a time of doubt about the US-U.N. rapprochement. Vassiliou on the Ukrainian and aspects of the operation of NATO.

Among other things, Joe Biden’s decision to approve sending cluster munitions to Ukraine has been heavily criticized in the UK. Prime Minister Sunak himself noted that Britain continues to discourage the use of such ammunition.

Disagreement also exists as to when Ukraine will join the Alliance, with Joe Biden being more cautious.

Also, the American President has rejected the candidacy of the British Minister of Defense Ben Wallace for the post of Secretary General of NATO. As Telegraph sources claimed this week, this was due to Biden’s displeasure with Sunak and Wallace’s initiative to lead efforts to acquire F-16s from the Ukrainians without prior American approval.