MADRID, 21 Ab. (EUROPE Press) –
The Secretary of Defense of the United States, Lloyd Austin, marked the approval this Saturday in the House of Representatives of a multi-billion dollar aid package to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, ensuring that it will save lives and make his country. safer.
“I welcome the approval of this legislation in the House, which will help the Department of Defense to promote our basic security interests,” the official said in a publication on the social network X, formerly Twitter, in did he stress” the national security. the improvement will make America safer and save lives.”
This “critical national security supplement,” Austin has defended, will not only help the Defense Department support Ukraine and Israel, but allow it to “strengthen security in the Indo-Pacific” and to force the US to stand “strong with (a ) friends and partners around the world.
“This bipartisan legislation will allow the Department to increase critical security assistance to protect Ukraine from Russian aggression, support Israel’s defense against Iran and its allies, and increase the flow of humanitarian aid to urgent need for the Palestinians who are suffering in Gaza,” said the Secretary of Defense.
The US official also emphasized that “this legislation is also an important investment in the future of the United States” because it provides approximately 50,000 million dollars (46,875 million euros) directly to the defense industrial base of his, which will create “good American jobs in more than 30 states, while strengthening America’s long-term security.” “
“This legislation will make America safer and save lives. We have seen again and again that the problems of our time will not worsen without strong and steady US leadership to advance our core security interests. The world is still watching. There is still life. We must not give our friends or our enemies any reason to doubt the decision of the United States,” Austin said in his note.
Last Saturday, the US House of Representatives approved a multi-billion dollar aid package for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan for a total value of around 90 billion euros, more than half of which will go to Kyiv, whose authorities have been asking for additional months. help due to Russian advances on the front.
The financial assistance would be divided between approximately 57 billion euros for Ukraine; 12.1 billion euros for Israel, immersed in the war against the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas, and 7.5 billion euros for Taiwan, involved in a historic territorial dispute with China that has increased in tension in recent months.
US President Joe Biden has promised to implement this aid package once it is approved in the Senate, after a vote that resulted in 311 votes to 112 against, with bipartisan support between the Democrats and the Republicans.
2024-04-21 06:51:32
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