BERLIN, 15 June. - (ANA) - Britain wants to cement its foreign policy and security ties with the European Union via the “closest possible cooperation agreement” and is open to participating in a European intervention force, a British minister said.

 

Britain was open to a close partnership with Europe on a crisis intervention force after it leaves the EU, depending on key details, David Lidington, Britain’s cabinet minister, told the Frankfurter Allgemeine newspaper.

 

Those details would include ensuring London’s control over any deployment of British troops, he said.

 

Britain would seek to formalize future foreign policy, security and military cooperation with the EU in an agreement, Lidington said. One possibility, he said, would be to have the British foreign minister participate each quarter in meetings of the European foreign minister council.   - (ANA) -

 

AB/ANA/15 June 2018 - - -