“Europe must be at the negotiating table on Ukraine together with the United States,” said the Spanish Minister of Foreign Affairs, José Manuel Albares on Saturday, within the framework of the Munich Security Conference.
The Spanish minister has participated in a meeting of members of the G5+ with the high representative of the EU and the American general Keith Kellog – representative of the White House for the Ukraine War – “to exchange and know the plans of the new US administration in Relationship to the war of Russian aggression to Ukraine. “
“Around the table the European unit has been demonstrated,” Albares added in declaration to the media in Munich. “Europe has to be at all times around the negotiating table and we want The presence of Kiev in any negotiation process.
In addition, he has insisted, “a war of aggression cannot have an award, a war of aggression cannot have a reward, because that would do the most unstable world and no one would be free that its most powerful neighbor would like to launch a war of aggression tomorrow,” .
“Europeans want peace, we will be next to and pushing any peace option, but that has to be fair and lasting. And that means respecting the sovereignty of Ukraine and that the voice of Europe is around the table around the table “He added.
General Keith Kellogg said this Saturday, also in Munich, that Europe should not participate directly in the negotiations that the US is promoting to end the armed conflict that Russia began almost three years ago in that country.
Europe and Democracy
During the conference, European representatives have exchanged impressions about the issues that affect Europe that, the Spanish minister has pointed out, “is first and foremost a construction of democracy.”
“Democracy is indissoluble for the construction of the European project” and “Europe is not understood without being an open society that Europe,” he insisted. Europe, “was built against the ideas and forces of the extreme right that wanted to annihilate it many decades ago.”
“Tolerance, pluralism, peace and equality values, it is essential European project, “added Albares.
