US President Joe Biden is on his way to Europe and is expected in the UK on Sunday, where he will meet with Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and King Charles III before attending next week’s NATO summit in Vilnius, Lithuania. Reuters reports.

The White House said that this trip to Great Britain is aimed at “further consolidation of close relations between the two countries”, reports news.ro.

On Monday, Joe Biden will meet with Rishi Sunak, with whom he will discuss the NATO summit and Ukraine. It is the fifth meeting between the two leaders in as many months, and it comes just a month after they agreed in Washington to cooperate on advanced technology, clean energy and essential minerals.

“As we face unprecedented new challenges to our physical and economic security, our alliances are more important than ever,” Sunak said in a statement released by his office on Saturday.

“Britain is NATO’s main ally in Europe, we are the most important commercial, military and diplomatic partner of the United States and we are on the front line to give Ukraine the support it needs to succeed on the battlefield,” Sunak said. , who studied at Stanford University in California and owns an apartment in Santa Monica.

Sunak has managed to somewhat mend relations with Biden after relations cooled under his predecessors Boris Johnson and Liz Truss over their tough stances on a post-Brexit deal with the European Union and Johnson’s deepening close ties with Donald Trump.

The American president will also meet with King Charles III, with whom he will discuss climate issues. For Biden, this will be the most publicized part of the visit. The meeting with King Charles will take place at Windsor Castle, west of London, where Queen Elizabeth, the monarch’s late mother, hosted Barack Obama in 2016 and Trump in 2018.

The president and the king are due to discuss climate change, a topic that Charles, 74, has campaigned and spoken about for more than five decades.

When the two men met at the COP26 UN climate summit in Scotland two years ago, Biden praised Charles’ leadership in the field, telling him: “We really need you.” “It’s very kind of you to say that,” he replied. Charles.

Then, Joe Biden and Rishi Sunak will travel to Lithuania to participate in the NATO summit on July 11 and 12.

After the summit, Joe Biden travels to Helsinki, Finland, the newest member of the military alliance, to meet with Nordic leaders.