UK largest bilateral humanitarian donor to Ukraine as UK, Canada and The Netherlands launch new Ukraine solidarity alliance
A landmark solidarity pact launched by the leaders of the UK, Canada and the Netherlands will mobilise practical and sustained support for Ukraine.
- The UK pledges extra £100m in aid, UK now the largest bilateral humanitarian donor to Ukraine.
- Builds on earlier announcement of $100m (£74m) cash injection into Ukraine바카라 사이트™s economy and takes UK total offer of support to the current Ukraine crisis to around £400 million.
- 바카라 사이트˜International Ukraine Support Group바카라 사이트™ will coordinate the global community to deliver long-term support for Ukraine.
- New initiative follows the Prime Minister바카라 사이트™s six point 바카라 사이트˜plan of action바카라 사이트™ for the international community to ensure Putin fails in his ambitions.
- Separately 바카라 사이트“ UK and Canada agree to strengthen bilateral cooperation across security, defence, trade, science, global travel health and climate sectors.
A landmark solidarity pact launched by the leaders of the United Kingdom, Canada and the Netherlands will mobilise practical and sustained support for Ukraine.
The new initiative 바카라 사이트“ the International Ukraine Support Group 바카라 사이트“ will bring together global partners committed to ensuring strong political, humanitarian, economic and defence support for Ukraine.
The group will mobilise international allies to coordinate and reinvigorate assistance to Ukraine - likely to be tested over time 바카라 사이트“ to ensure efforts are sustained in the long-term. The trio will encourage more countries to join and the UK will be raising this with their partners.
Last week 141 countries voted to condemn Putin바카라 사이트™s war at the historic UN General Assembly vote. 39 countries 바카라 사이트“ including the UK, Canada and the Netherlands - joined the largest referral to the International Criminal Court in history to expedite an investigation.
The UK, Canada and The Netherlands have been leading the way in their response to Ukraine바카라 사이트™s requests for help including issuing punitive sanctions and providing defensive military equipment.
At the same time, the UK is now the largest bilateral humanitarian donor to Ukraine. It comes as we commit another £100m in aid to Ukraine to save lives, protect vulnerable people inside the country and in the wider region and to tackle the growing humanitarian crisis. It will provide basic necessities including medical supplies.
It takes UK total offer of support to the current Ukraine crisis to around £400 million.
This includes the $100m (£74m), announced yesterday, for the Ukrainian government budget to mitigate financial pressures created by Russia바카라 사이트™s unprovoked and illegal invasion.
In today바카라 사이트™s press conference, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said:
As Ukrainians resist Russia바카라 사이트™s onslaught with courage and tenacity, the international community must aid their struggle in every way we can.
To aid these efforts, today the UK is joining our Dutch and Canadian friends to mobilise more practical and sustained support for Ukraine.
This is the moment for Ukraine바카라 사이트™s friends to create a coalition of humanitarian, economic and defensive military support to ensure that Putin fails.
The formation of the partnership commences a week of concerted engagement by the Prime Minister to drive the international community to ensure Putin fails in his ambitions, set out in his six-point plan.
On Tuesday, he will host leaders of the 바카라 사이트˜V4바카라 사이트™ group of Central European nations 바카라 사이트“ the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia.
Separately 바카라 사이트“ the UK and Canada have agreed to strengthen bilateral cooperation across security, defence, trade, science, global travel health and climate sectors.
Under the commitment, the two countries will enhance deeper collaboration with respect to security and intelligence, including through Five Eyes, to better combat current and future threats to democracy. They will also strengthen cooperation on economic resilience, especially supply chains.
The pair will build on existing defence relationships which will protect and defend our shared interests in the Indo-Pacific. The UK바카라 사이트™s polar research vessel HMS Protector will visit Canada in the summer.
Negotiations will start for a new, ambitious, progressive free trade agreement between Canada and the UK and the two countries will work together to successfully complete the UK바카라 사이트™s accession to the Comprehensive and Progressive Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP).
A new UK-Canada Travel Health Dialogue will look at enhancing alignment on border and travel measures, and on how countries use global travel health policies in their responses to further variants and global health challenges.
The government will continue to work closely with the international community to strengthen security and resilience, and make a renewed and concerted effort to ensure Putin fails in Ukraine.