Liz Truss has insisted the UK’s relationship with the US continues to be “particular” as she seeks to forge nearer ties with allies amid heightened threats around the globe.
The Prime Minister additionally urged allied nations to disregard Vladimir Putin’s “sabre-rattling” and proceed to again Ukraine.
In a wide-ranging interview with CNN on Sunday, she vowed to foster even stronger relations with the US.
We shouldn't be listening to (Vladimir Putin's) sabre-rattling and his bogus threatsLiz Truss
Ms Truss was requested about considerations in Joe Biden’s administration that she didn't share the identical perception within the particular relationship as a few of her predecessors in No 10, after she beforehand described it as “particular however not unique”.
The Prime Minister stated her first assembly with the US president on the margins of the UN Common Meeting in New York this week had been “nice”.
She informed CNN’s State Of The Union programme: “I do suppose our relationship is particular and it’s more and more vital at a time once we’re going through threats from Russia, elevated assertiveness from China.
“I’m decided that we make the particular relationship much more particular over the approaching years.”
Ms Truss stated the UK and US have been “stepping up as an alliance” towards Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
She informed allies to not fall for Mr Putin’s threats, after he final week warned his nation would use “all of the means at our disposal” to guard itself.
The Russian president additionally introduced a partial navy mobilisation because the Kremlin makes an attempt to regain floor within the face of a counterattack by Ukraine’s forces.
Ms Truss stated: “We shouldn't be listening to his sabre-rattling and his bogus threats.
“As a substitute, what we have to do is proceed to place sanctions on Russia and proceed to assist the Ukrainians as a result of if Putin is allowed to succeed, this wouldn’t simply ship a horrible message in Europe and naturally, enormous threats to the Ukrainian inhabitants themselves, but it surely additionally would ship a message to different authoritarian regimes around the globe that it’s someway acceptable to… invade a sovereign nation.
“So that is why it’s so vital that we proceed to be resolute, we don’t hearken to the sabre-rattling that we’re listening to from Putin, and we proceed to again the Ukrainians to the hilt.”
The Prime Minister stated the world wanted to “study the teachings from Ukraine” as she vowed to work with allies to make sure Taiwan can defend itself towards China.
However she refused to go so far as saying the UK would defend it militarily if Beijing invaded, as Mr Biden has promised.
The Prime Minister’s purpose of strengthening relations with allies comes amid tensions over threats by the UK to override elements of the post-Brexit Northern Eire Protocol.
Ms Truss sought to reassure Mr Biden, the US president with proud Irish heritage, that she was dedicated to upholding the peace course of throughout their assembly.
Requested about their dialog, Ms Truss stated: “President Biden and I each agree that what is significant is to guard the Belfast Good Friday Settlement…
“What’s vital is that we defend and respect the positions of each the nationalist group in Northern Eire, in addition to the unionist group in Northern Eire.
“So what I need to do is discover a method ahead and my choice is a negotiated answer with the EU that protects that north-south relationship, but in addition protects the east-west relationship, and that's completely core to the Belfast Good Friday Settlement.”
The UK Authorities’s strategy to post-Brexit talks has additionally brought about tensions with France.
Ms Truss sparked a diplomatic row throughout the Tory management contest when she declined to provide a transparent reply when requested if French President Emmanuel Macron was a “buddy or foe”.
Whereas she declined to name Mr Macron a “buddy”, Ms Truss informed CNN she had a “superb assembly” with him by which they mentioned shared values and areas of cooperation.
“I’m wanting ahead to working with him sooner or later,” she stated.