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British Foreign Secretary David Cameron urges members of the US Congress to approve a Ukraine aid package. "We should be standing up for freedom, standing up for the right of this country to defend itself and making sure that Putin doesn't win," he says while on a visit to Bulgaria. The Republican leader of the US House of Representatives blocked war aid for Ukraine on February 13, ignoring President Joe Biden's plea that passing the bill was vital for standing up to Russian President Vladimir Putin. SOUNDBITE
French foreign minister Stephane Sejourne lands in Tel Aviv during his Middle east tour. Before travelling to Israel Sejourne, met his counterparts in Egypt and Jordan. IMAGES
Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva meets with China's visiting Foreign Minister Wang Yi in the northeastern Brazilian city of Fortaleza. IMAGES
France's newly appointed Foreign Minister and head of the government's party Renaissance, Stephane Sejourne meets with precedor CAtherine Colonna at ministry. IMAGES
Palestinian foreign minister Riyad al-Maliki says at the UN Security Council that the Palestinian people "are faced with an existential threat" amid the conflict between Hamas and Israel. SOUNDBITE
The defence of Europe without Ukraine would be a "futile task", Kyiv's Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba tells the press as he arrives for a meeting of his North Atlantic Treaty Organization counterparts in Brussels. Speaking after greeting the US-led defence alliance's Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, Kuleba adds that he believes the Ukrainian armed forces to now be currently "the strongest and the most battle-hardened army in Europe" as its war against Russia's invading forces drags on towards a third year. Kuleba and his NATO counterparts on Wednesday are set to agree on a plan for reforms aimed at helping Ukraine towards eventual membership in the alliance. IMAGES