EU foreign ministers discuss support for Ukraine

Created: 06/20/2022, 10:07 am

By: Lukas Zigo

Ukraine's accession to the EU, military support for Ukraine and Egypt policy are topics at the EU foreign ministers' meeting in Luxembourg.

• EU comes together:

  The EU foreign ministers discuss further support for Ukraine.

• Demands from Warsaw:

  Poland demands another package of sanctions against Russia.

• EU enlargement:

  Opinions on Ukraine's EU accession expected.

LUXEMBOURG – European Union foreign ministers meet in Luxembourg on Monday (26 June 2022) to discuss further support for Ukraine in Russia's war of aggression.

Opinions are expected on the EU Commission's proposal to give Ukraine the status of its candidate country.

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Kuleba and Germany's Foreign Minister Baerbock (Greens) with their EU counterparts at the G7 summit in Germany.

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A decision on this should then be made at the EU summit.

The heads of state and government will meet in Brussels on Thursday and Friday.

A press conference is scheduled for 4:30 p.m.

EU foreign ministers meeting: Poland calls for another package of sanctions against Russia

Further military aid to Ukraine could also be discussed with the foreign ministers.

The EU has so far released two billion euros for joint arms purchases from a fund.

Other Council issues are relations with Egypt and the Long Horn of Africa.

In the course of this there will also be an informal lunch with the Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Hassan Shokry.

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Against the background of the ministerial meeting, Poland called for further punitive measures against Russia in order to persuade Moscow to give in in the Ukraine war.

"It's about expanding the sanctions.

In our view, a seventh package of sanctions must be launched as quickly as possible.

We have to keep the pressure up," Polish Foreign Ministry spokesman Lukasz Jasina told Welt am Sonntag.

Deputy Foreign Minister Marcin Przydacz said the sixth sanctions package had hit Russia hard.

“But we haven't been able to sufficiently weaken Putin and his military machine.

So more and tougher sanctions are needed.” (lz/dpa)