UK to deepen ties with fellow democracies like India to build resilience: Truss - United Nations News

United Nations, Sep 22 (IANS) Newly-elected British Prime Minister Liz Truss said that to build economic strength and resilience, her country is deepening relations and growing security ties with fellow democracies like India.

by Maria Thomas | Updated Sep 22, 2022

Making her debut on the world stage on Wednesday at the high-level meeting of the General Assembly, she said: "The free world needs this economic strength and resilience to push back against authoritarian aggression and win this new era of strategic competition."

For this, Truss said: "We are deepening our links with fellow democracies like India, Israel, Indonesia and South Africa... We are building new security ties with our friends in the Indo-Pacific and the Gulf."

The Prime Minister brought the stark message of a confrontation between democracy and autocracy over the future of the world.

"There is a real struggle going on between different forms of society - between democracies and autocracies. But we cannot simply assume there will be a democratic future.

"Unless democratic societies deliver on the economy and security our citizens expect, we will fall behind," she added.

For this, Truss said, democracies like Britain have to build their economies and not "be strategically dependent on those who seek to weaponise the global economy", a reference to Russia, whose ongoing invasion of Ukraine and its fallout have hit many countries hard.

To be economically and strategically resilient, democracies must band together, she said.

And alluding to the predatory nature of China's economic programmes abroad, the Prime Minister said: "Rather than exerting influence through debt, aggression, and taking control of critical infrastructure and minerals, we are building strategic ties based on mutual benefit and trust."

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