The UK Foreign Minister, David Lami, said that a new multilateral fund is needed to secure Europe’s defense because he stressed that Britain was “open” for joint financing for military spending.

Lame The European Union welcomes the moves this week to consider raising large sums of money for defense throughout the continent, and threw its support behind the establishment of an institution or system that would include Britain.

“We will need more multilateral mechanisms in this field,” he told the Financial Times during a trip to Japan. “We in the United Kingdom are open to these initiatives because this is related to European security.”

Several proposals that will include Britain have been offered in recent weeks, including a reconstruction bank in Europe and an institution that includes democracies such as Japan, South Korea and Australia alongside Europe.

The UK Foreign Minister refused to support a specific approach, indicating that he wanted to see more details. His comments come Ukraine He faces increasing pressure from US President Donald Trump, who this week has cut military and intelligence aid to Kiev. Trump also prompted Europe to re -deport and finance its defense.

During a virtual meeting on Friday between the leaders of the European Union and NATO members without the European Union, including UK Prime Minister Sir Kerr Starmer and Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Junior Store, the topic “How can they participate in the efforts made [the] The European Defense Industry was discussed, “according to the people who were briefed on the call.

The relations between the United States and Ukraine, which was one day, have revealed since the clash of Trump and President Voludimir Zelinski at the White House last week, a moment that Lami described as “not a high point in diplomacy.”

“It was too late, what should have been a special discussion of a public discussion” between the two leaders and US Vice President JD Vance, Lami said. The Foreign Minister said that the front lines policy was “tiring” and “uncompromising in it,” adding: “It is nothing more uncompromising than a person who leads a state in the war, and therefore it is not for me to judge, but the matter for me to behave and recover.”

Lami said that Starmer was in pain “to mediate to heal this rift.”

“It was really good this week to see Zelenskyy adhered to the metal deal, expressly express what happened in the White House, and to advance a partial ceasefire plan that I think has decreased well in the White House, and a vision. Donald Trump realizes that the change is in tone.”

Lami said that Trump’s return to the Oval Office in January and Washington in Ukraine’s policy has reached a “new era” in political geography, but he insisted: “I do not know those who talk about the collapse of the West.”

He insists that there is no doubt that the United Kingdom or Europe “sells Ukraine Short” by allowing Kyiv to force it to a bad peace agreement with Russia. The United Kingdom and France pushes the European peacekeeping power, with the support of the United States, to secure peace in Ukraine.

Click on whether the United States Agreement is Ukraine on rare ground minerals alone will be “sufficient” from Trump for the European peacekeeping power, Lami said this deal will be important because “the United States takes its own protection. [economic] Interesting interests, “but they have argued that it would be unavoidable to be more specific.

Although the discussions were continuing on security guarantees that may be presented to Ukraine, “we must be very careful that we are so publicly tired that we are already giving them. [Russian President Vladimir] Putin is a leg in these negotiations. ”

When asked whether the UK is planning an emergency for the possibility of withdrawing the United States from its military resources from Europe in the future, given the inability to predict the administration recently, Lami said: “You expect the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to plan all the scenarios that inevitably mean a greater commitment [to defence] From Europe. “

Lammy traveled to Tokyo this week with UK’s Business Minister Jonathan Reynolds in an “2+2” economic dialogue with their Japanese counterparts. He said he sipped green tea in front of panoramic views on the 51st of the skyscrapers overlooking the Gulf, and said that the United Kingdom and Japan “are sharing a strong commitment to the rules -based arrangement, both of us are important G7 allies and we have a decision to work together.”

Last week, the UK Foreign Minister witnessed a decrease in his aid budget from 0.5 percent of the total national income to 0.3 per cent, a reduction that will be disposed of during the next two years to finance the defensive spending raised from 2.3 percent of GDP to 2.5 percent by 2027.

He insisted that no proposal accepted that reducing aid may lead to the death of hundreds or thousands of people in the developing world, on the pretext that “investing in deterrence saves lives.”

The 2023 evaluation of Whitehall Discounts in the UK aid budget under the Conservative Party, from 0.7 percent of GNI to 0.5 percent, found that this step will lead to the death of thousands of women in pregnancy and childbirth in Africa.

Lammy insisted that spending discounts were “completely different” from what Starmer just announced, adding that the conservative administration canceled the Ministry of International Development “overnight” and established “huge shelf edges” in financing aid projects.

It is keen to reflect the current structure of its management, as there are two -thirds of the employees in London and the third abroad. He said that artificial intelligence should help reduce bureaucracy, and it was also tried to use in preparing negotiation and simulating disaster response.

Lammy was among the main figures in the UK government that ascends diplomatic participation with Beijing. Last fall, he traveled to the Chinese mainland, followed by a trip to London by his counterpart Wang Yi last month. He has entered the controversial new embassy of China in London, which is awaiting approval.

Lami said it was important for the United Kingdom to act “with our eyes open”, citing sanctions against British deputies by Beijing’s activities and China’s activities in Hong Kong as major areas in the dispute. But he added: “There is a lot of trade that has nothing to do with national security, and growth is something we can celebrate, as this is in our national interest.”

Additional reports from Ben Hall in Brussels