{"id":48598,"date":"2024-03-02T20:11:42","date_gmt":"2024-03-02T10:11:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abnews.com.au\/?p=48598"},"modified":"2024-03-02T20:11:42","modified_gmt":"2024-03-02T10:11:42","slug":"biden-hails-italian-pms-ukraine-stance-as-us-aid-fears-mount","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/?p=48598","title":{"rendered":"Biden hails Italian PM&#8217;s Ukraine stance as US aid fears mount"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>President Joe Biden hailed Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni&#8217;s &#8220;unwavering&#8221; support for Ukraine Friday, as they held talks overshadowed by worries about the future of US aid for Kyiv.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Despite their political differences, the far-right Italian leader and the veteran Democrat have had warm relations, particularly because of Meloni&#8217;s strong stance on Ukraine as it battles Russia&#8217;s invasion.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I want to thank you for Italy&#8217;s unwavering support for Ukraine,&#8221; Biden, 81, said as he sat with Meloni, 47, in front of a crackling fire in the Oval Office of the White House.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have each other&#8217;s backs &#8212; we also have Ukraine&#8217;s back,&#8221; added Biden, who sported socks decorated with Stars and Stripes flags.<\/p>\n<p>Biden sought to reassure Meloni that he was urging Republicans in Congress to stop blocking $60 billion of vital US military assistance for Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>The impasse has left Kyiv desperately short of weapons as it tries to fight off recent Russian advances, and alarmed Washington&#8217;s European allies who fear Moscow has further ambitions.<\/p>\n<p>It was Meloni&#8217;s second visit to the White House, after she came in July last year.<\/p>\n<p>Meloni, whose country holds the rotating presidency of the Group of Seven (G7) nations, said Ukraine would be top of the agenda at a leaders&#8217; summit in Italy in June.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden hailed Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni&#8217;s &#8220;unwavering&#8221; support for Ukraine Friday, as they held talks overshadowed by worries about the future of US aid for Kyiv. Despite their political differences, the far-right Italian leader and the veteran Democrat have had warm relations, particularly because of Meloni&#8217;s strong stance on Ukraine as it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48599,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[651],"class_list":["post-48598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","tag-biden-hails-italian-pms-ukraine-stance-as-us-aid-fears-mount"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48598\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}