Foreign Ministers after Monday’s meeting in London welcomed the possibility of peace interviews between Russia and Ukraine this week in Istanbul, Turkey. At the same time, however, they stressed that Moscow “had” showed no serious intention to make progress “on the way to peace and urged it to do so without delay. According to the AFP report, TASR reports this.
The meeting of France Ministers, Germany, Italy, Poland, Spain, Britain and the High EU representative for foreign affairs and security policy took place in Weimar+format, which was established in February In response to a change in US attitude to war in Ukraine and security in Europe.
The joint statement published by the British Government implies, that ministers expressed full support for security, sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine within its internationally recognized borders.
“Russia has not yet shown any serious intention to make progress. It must do so immediately. We joined the call of Ukraine to the immediate, complete and unconditional 30-day ceasefire in order to create space for negotiations on a fair, complex and permanent peace, ” stated in the text.
Ministers agreed that they will cooperate with Ukraine on initiatives aimed at strengthening its armed forces and industrial capacities, as well as supplementing ammunition and equipment supplies. They also expressed their determination to provide Ukraine with fixed security guarantees. According to the statement, this includes a review of the possibility of creating a coalition of air, ground and naval security forces that could contribute to the creation of confidence in the future rate if the restoration of the Ukrainian army.
As far as other sanctions are concerned, they stated that They will promote “ambitious measures” in order to “reduce Russia’s ability to wage war by limiting the Kremlin’s income, By disrupting his shadow fleet, tightening the ceiling of oil prices and a reduction in our remaining import of Russian energiers ”.
“We will leave the Russian state assets in our jurisdictions frozen until Russia ends its aggression and pays for damage caused,” They delivered in a statement. According to AFP, the host of the meeting, the head of British diplomacy, did not report new sanctions against Russia as expected. The Agency pointed out that several of the measures mentioned in the statements have already been introduced.
These include some of the proposed European Union working on the 17th Pack of Sancies With other measures focused on vessels. Russian shadow fleet of tankers, which Moscow allegedly uses to circumvent sanctions imposed by Western countries for oil exports from Russia.
