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- Canada Prime Minister Mark Carney and UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham discussed merging defence financing initiatives.
- Both the Defence, Security and Resilience Bank and the UK Multilateral Defence Mechanism aim for a 2027 launch.
- Canada signed Albania, Belgium, Greece, Latvia, Luxembourg, Romania, Turkey and Ukraine to its bank.
- UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced a £400-million contribution to the mechanism in June.