The foreign ministers of G7the group of richest democracies on the planet, analyzed this Thursday the situation on the Ukrainian front and studied ways to provide financial aid and anti-aircraft systems to Ukraine “urgently”.
“Helping Ukraine means working for peace, because if Kyiv loses, Putin will never sit at the peace table,” the Italian Foreign Minister, Antonio Tajani, warned his partners when opening the G7 Foreign Summit on the island of Capri (south).
The meeting, organized under the Italian presidency, focused on this first day of work in the war in Ukraine, on the situation on its front under pressure from Russian troops and the continuous requests for help and ammunition arriving from kyiv.
For this reason, in addition to the ministers of the club of powers – Germany, Canada, the United States, France, Italy, Japan and the United Kingdom – the Secretary General of NATO, Jens Stoltenberg, and the Ukrainian Foreign Minister, Dmitro Kuleba, arrived in Capri. .
Speaking on behalf of the European Union, its High Representative for Foreign and Security Policy, Josep Borrell, insisted on the need for the community bloc to send kyiv the long-awaited ‘Patriot’ anti-aircraft missiles or other similar systems.
“We cannot rely only on the United States, we have to assume our responsibility. “We have the Patriots, we have the anti-missile systems, we have to get them out of storage and send them to Ukraine, where the war is escalating, and I am sure we will do it quickly,” predicted the head of European diplomacy.
Meanwhile, Kuleba met with his French counterpart, Stéphane Séjourné; with the Canadian, Mélanie Joly; with the Japanese, Yoko Kamikawa, and with the US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, just when the Congress of that country has agreed to process a new aid package for Ukraine for US$ 61,000 million (57,000 million euros) after months of stagnation .
The Ukrainian minister thanked his colleague for this help, which could alleviate the dramatic shortage of ammunition suffered by the Ukrainian army, and predicted that its final approval “It will send a message of strength and confidence that will allow Ukraine to save lives and improve the situation on the battlefield.”
Stoltenberg, for his part, encouraged the member states of the bloc’s Atlantic Alliance to offer Ukraine air defense systems or financial support because, he regretted, “Every delay costs lives and damage” before the Russian invasion.
“We are working with all our allies and asking them to provide air defense systems like the Samp/T or others,” he assured the media upon his arrival, when asked if other countries, besides Germany, could offer ‘Patriots’ to kyiv.
Belarusian opposition leader Svetlana Tijanóvskaya also arrived at the Capri summit, exiled after the fraudulent 2020 elections that kept Aleksandr Lukashenko’s regime in power.
The dissident asked the G7 to implement sanctions against Moscow and Minsk and to also promote “a comprehensive strategy” to sustain the opposition resistance.
“I came to call on the leaders of the free world to strengthen their resolve to support the democratic aspirations of Belarusians and to implement and enforce sanctions on the regime and its cronies,” he explained.
The Capri meeting will conclude this Friday with a press conference in which Tajani will illustrate his conclusions.
On the table, as all the ministers of the club of powers have advanced, there will also be the need to expand the sanctions against the regime of the Ayatollahs of Iran, after the bombing against Israel in response to the attack on its consulate in Damascus.
Regarding the situation in the Middle East and the war in the Gaza Strip, unleashed after the October 7 attack by the Palestinian militia Hamas, Tajani maintained that although the G7 is “friend of Israel” prefer “a de-escalation” in the region.
“We will also have to face how to somehow sanction Iran for the attack with hundreds of missiles and drones against Israel and also the situation regarding maritime traffic through Suez and the Red Sea,” due to the attacks by the Houthi rebels in Yemen, the Italian minister advanced.
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Source: Gestion
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