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Foreign Minister fears Putin's "total war" - Baerbock threatens Russia with "severe consequences"

2021-12-14T07:28:23.444Z


Foreign Minister fears Putin's "total war" - Baerbock threatens Russia with "severe consequences" Created: 12/14/2021, 08:19 AM Annalena Baerbock at her first foreign ministers' conference in Brussels. Here with her Austrian counterpart Alexander Schallenberg. © photothek / imago The EU's foreign ministers are concerned about Ukraine. Annalena Baerbock and her colleagues find clear words for Ru


Foreign Minister fears Putin's "total war" - Baerbock threatens Russia with "severe consequences"

Created: 12/14/2021, 08:19 AM

Annalena Baerbock at her first foreign ministers' conference in Brussels.

Here with her Austrian counterpart Alexander Schallenberg.

© photothek / imago

The EU's foreign ministers are concerned about Ukraine.

Annalena Baerbock and her colleagues find clear words for Russia's approach.

A drastic comparison comes from Lithuania.

Brussels - Since Annalena Baerbock has been responsible for Germany's foreign policy, the Green politician's calendar has one foreign appointment after another: After a visit to the Polish government and the G7 meeting in Great Britain, an EU foreign ministerial meeting followed on Monday (December 13) Brussels. Some of the issues to be discussed here and there were delicate. In the EU headquarters, Baerbock once again showed a clear edge against Russia.

Baerbock threatened the Kremlin again with severe consequences in the event of an attack on Ukraine.

The Green politician said that there was a clear common stance in the event of further aggressive behavior by Russia.

The EU stands in full solidarity with Ukraine.

Any action by Russia will have "severe diplomatic and economic consequences".

The EU foreign ministers had underlined that Ukraine's sovereignty was out of question.

Ukraine conflict: is Russia planning a war?

"We are convinced of it"

The background to the discussions about how to deal with Russia is based on the findings of NATO that Russia has concentrated between 75,000 and 100,000 soldiers in areas not far from Ukraine. The developments bring back memories of 2014. At that time, Russia annexed the Crimean peninsula after the coup in Ukraine and began to support separatists in eastern Ukraine, which is still ongoing.

Russian President Vladimir Putin's alleged war intentions were discussed openly in the round of foreign ministers.

Lithuania's Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis said: “We are convinced that Russia is indeed preparing for an all-out war against Ukraine.

And that is an unprecedented event - probably since World War II. ”That means that the response from Western states must also be unprecedented.

Foreign ministers conference: Baerbock comments on Nord Stream 2 and the Olympics

Baerbock was again cautious about the controversial German-Russian gas pipeline Nord Stream 2. At this point in time everything has been said. In the ZDF “heute-Journal”, Baerbock had said the evening before that the traffic light parties SPD, Greens and FDP had agreed in the coalition agreement that European energy law would apply to energy projects - “and that means that, as things stand, this pipeline will not be approved can because it does not meet the requirements of European energy law and the security issues are still in the room anyway. "

Regarding a possible diplomatic boycott of the Olympic Winter Games in Beijing in February, Baerbock said the issue played a role on the sidelines of the ministers' meeting.

"We're trying to find a common line here." There are different attitudes on the subject.

“We are united by a great passion for sport.

And it is also united by our consistent standing up for human rights. ”It is important to her that“ we come to a common line with as many European partners as possible ”.

(dpa / jo)

Source: merkur

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