President Biden kicked off his high-stakes visit to Europe with a stop in London, where his meetings on Monday with King Charles III and Prime Minister Rishi Sunak were expected to be among the least contentious of his five-day trip.
While the war in Ukraine, slogging through its second year, was expected to dominate Biden’s trip to Europe, his one-day visit to London includes a broader array of topics, including the environment and artificial intelligence.
White House officials have sought to project a sense of unity around Biden’s five-day trip, which will also include meetings at the NATO summit in Vilnius, Lithuania, and a confab with Nordic leaders in Finland.“Couldn’t be meeting with a closer friend and a greater ally," Biden said during brief remarks Monday, sitting next to Sunak in a garden of 10 Downing."We’re doing well, and I think we’re moving away in a way that is positive. But our relationship is rock-solid.
meetings this week threaten to expose major rifts in the coalition of countries that has spent much of the past 500 days pushing back against Russia’s aggression in Ukraine. Biden and Sunak shook hands and posed for pictures Monday morning at 10 Downing Street. While the two men have met often at various global summits, it was Biden’s first time visiting 10 Downing Street as president. The meeting lasted less than an hour, before Biden departed to travel about 25 miles to Windsor Castle.
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