UK PM spurns Russian president’s ‘sabre-rattling’ as she prepares call for democratic renewal in UN address
The new UK prime minister, who addresses the UN in New York hours after a virtual speech by the Ukraine president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, will urge world leaders not to “let up” on dealing with Putin despite domestic concerns over soaring energy prices.
Truss will also use her address to highlight the continuing struggle, with economic security at its heart, between democracies and autocracies. “Unless democratic societies deliver on the economy and security our citizens expect, we will fall behind,” she is to say. “We need to keep improving and renewing what we do for the new era, demonstrating that democracy delivers.”
As foreign secretary, Truss travelled to Moscow to meet Lavrov in February, just weeks before the invasion of Ukraine, but relations were icy with Russia’s top diplomat describing the talks as a conversation of “the mute with the deaf”, as she warned Moscow of tough sanctions in the event of an attack on Ukraine.
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