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If Europe is left out of the peace conversations between Russia and Ukraine, an agreement would not work, said EU Kaja Kallas Foreign Chief of Foreign Policy at the Munich Security Conference on Saturday.
“For anything to work, you have to have Ukrainians and Europeans as part of this, because Ukrainians and Europeans are those who also need to implement the agreement here in Europe, so without us, any agreement would not only work,” he said. Silvia Amaro de CNBC outside the MSc.
Kallas’s comments occur after the United States vice president, JD Vance, surprised European officials on Friday when he delivered excessive speech in the MSC criticizing European democratic institutions and the state of freedom of expression in the region.
In a speech to MSC on Friday, Vance said The threat to Europe came from within, instead of adversaries.
“The threat that worries me the most about Vis to Europe is not Russia, it is not China, it is not another external actor. What worries me is the threat from the inside,” he said, and added that “the withdrawal of Europe from some of some of some of some of Its most fundamental values, values shared with the United State of America. “
It is not necessary to say that the comments found a stony silence in Europe, and were the strongest signal of an ideological and geopolitical crack between the two powers since President Donald Trump came to power.
Previously, EU Kallas official responded to Vance’s speech on Friday To say that it was as if the vice president was “trying to fight” with Europe.
“Upon hearing that speech, they try to fight us and we don’t want to fight with our friends,” Kallas said at the Munich event, Reuters reported.
Kallas told CNBC on Saturday that Europe “can deal with our own domestic problems, the things we need to discuss with our friends and allies are how we oppose the threats that come from outside to both of them, to the transatlantic community.”
Volodymyr Zelenskyy, president of Ukraine, can be seen in a monitor during the Munich Security Conference. The 61th Munich Security Conference (MSC) will take place from February 14 to 16, 2025 at the Bayerischer Hof Hotel in Munich.
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The world’s defense and security elite has gathered in Munich for the three -day security summit on which discussions focus on the future of Ukraine, peace conversations with Russia and the remodeling of security and defense architecture from Europe.
The summit arrives a few days after Trump announced that Russia and Ukraine had agreed to start peace conversationsand that he had ordered US officials to begin negotiations immediately.
It is likely that the substance of these conversations, and what conditions and commitments, Moscow and kyiv, and the United States, demand as part of these negotiations are a focal point for delegates in the MSC.
The role that Europe will play in discussions remains to be seen, despite the insistence of Ukraine that its strongest ally is included in conversations.
In a speech to MSC on Saturday, The president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, asked European allies to create their own army And to prepare for more Russian aggression in the future, saying that Russia “was not preparing for dialogue” to advance peace conversations.
He also said that kyiv had evidence, on which he did not elaborate, that Moscow was ready to send troops to Belarus this summer.
