The UK is open to ‘ideas’ of nations seeking to join part of the Aukus trilateral defence agreement, David Cameron has suggested.
The Foreign Secretary said he does not believe there will be additional partners to the deal with the US and Australia which is focused on helping the latter acquire nuclear-powered submarines.
But he suggested a more open stance to the second part of the agreement, which focuses on developing advanced military capabilities and increasing interoperability between the three nations’ armed forces.
Cameron told peers: ‘Aukus has two pillars. There’s the pillar one which is about the nuclear-powered submarines that is Britain, Australia and America. And I don’t think there will be additional partners in that.
‘But there is pillar two which is looking at advanced military technology for the future, and there we are open to ideas of other countries, possibly Canada people have mentioned, or Japan, who might want to join into pillar two because that is going to be about defence equipment for the future.’
source: PA
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