MNE highlights Alignment with United Kingdom

The Portuguese Foreign Minister highlighted this Sunday the “great alignment” between Portugal and the United Kingdom. Paulo Rangel, after a meeting with his British homologist in Lisbon, who considered this “very promising” alignment.

« There is a great alignment between the two oldest allies in the world in terms of defense, » said the chief of Portuguese diplomacy, at the end of a work and lunch meeting with the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Commonwealth and United Kingdom Development, David Lammy, at the Palace of Needs, in Lisbon.

“There was a communion of views, an alignment, which I think is quite promising,” said Rangel, quoted by Lusa agency.

The ruler also said he had « direct contact » with Minister Lammy, to exchange « impressions on the most varied questions and namely in the preparation of meetings at prime minister. »

The bilateral relationship with the European Union (EU) and the current international context, namely the war in Ukraine, were topics addressed during the meeting.

“The alignment of Portugal and the United Kingdom in this challenging clear and promising conjuncture,” wrote the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on social network X, in a publication accompanied by photographs of the two ministers.