Newly elected British Prime Minister Keir Starmer is making his maiden appearance on the international stage with a strong signal of support for Ukraine as he attended the NATO summit in Washington.After he and other European leaders met American lawmakers, Starmer sat down with Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelenskyy on Wednesday.Afterward, he reaffirmed Britain's full-throated backing for Kyiv as it battles Russia's invasion.Starmer said he and his new Labour government would “use our opportunity here with our allies to make sure that that support is agreed” by NATO's members.
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00:00I've just had a very good meeting with President Zelensky where I made it absolutely clear
00:05that as far as the UK is concerned, the change of government makes no difference to the support
00:10that we will provide.
00:12We've been united on this when we were in opposition and it was really important to
00:17me to be able to affirm that face-to-face in the meeting.
00:20I did speak to him immediately after I was sworn in as Prime Minister last week.
00:25And so we build on that here at NATO at this important summit because it is an opportunity
00:31for our Labour government to reaffirm our commitment to NATO.
00:36We obviously signed the original treaty way back.
00:40We reaffirmed today, but also to discuss with President Zelensky what further support that
00:45he needs and to use our opportunity here with our allies to make sure that that support
00:53is agreed and to reinforce, in a sense as a message to Putin, the resolve of NATO, bigger
01:02now than it's ever been, more united than it's ever been and absolutely clear-eyed about
01:08the threat of Russian aggression.