President Biden and UK's PM Johnson Biden to sign new 'Atlantic Charter' on trade and defense amid Covid-19 recovery.
, that outlines eight key areas on which the U.S. and the United Kingdom plan to collaborate.
The charter will also commit to combatting the modern challenges of cyberthreats and climate change and to bringing the coronavirus pandemic to an end. As part of the agreement, Biden and Johnson will also work to reopen travel between the U.S. and U.K. as soon as possible. They plan to create a new travel task force that will make recommendations about safely reopening international travel.
To help bring an end to the pandemic globally, the two leaders are expected to agree to work together on genomic sequencing and reviewing Covid-19 variants. U.S. national security adviser Jake Sullivan confirmed the updated Atlantic Charter agreement aboard Air Force One while en route to the U.K. Wednesday for“There'll be a refresher of the Atlantic Charter, which is now 80 years old,” Sullivan told reporters. “So, there will be an updated statement of principles between the U.S. and the UK, as free societies and free peoples, speaking out about what we believe in in this 21st century.
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