Sir Keir Starmer has thanked New Zealand for its support for the coalition of the willing, highlighting the two countries’ shared values and close defence ties during talks with his counterpart, Christopher Luxon, in Downing Street.
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00:00Well Prime Minister, can I welcome you to Downing Street. It's really fantastic to be able to host you here for your first visit to Downing Street.
00:08Obviously this morning we've seen the Ukrainian training that's going on, but both of our countries are contributing to.
00:14And for me that will reinforce how close we are geographically, distant, but close when it comes to defence, to security, to trade the economy, and a way of thinking and the values that we hold.
00:27So for me it's a real privilege to be able to welcome you here, to continue our discussions about trade, about defence security.
00:36Thank you so much for all the support you've been able to give to the Coalition of the Willing and the work that you're doing on Ukraine.
00:42And I look forward to further discussions this afternoon. So thank you and you're very welcome.
00:46Well thank you Prime Minister. Can I just say it's great to be with you again and appreciate our friendship as well.
00:50And it's also great to be in the UK, a place that I know well, having lived here for three years and my daughter haven't been brought here.
00:56So can I say thank you to you for your leadership and your unwavering support of Ukraine.
01:00It's making a big difference in the world and we really appreciate being able to partner in the way that we have with you over the last three years as we've seen training Ukrainian troops this morning.
01:08So I think our bilateral relationship is in fantastic shape and I think it's just about how do we keep deepening it around trade and around defence and security and obviously the people to people.
01:18So looking forward to the time we've got together. It's awesome. Fantastic. Thank you.