Brussels: Europe and Arabs

On his arrival at the European Union Defense Ministers meeting in Prague, the capital of the current Bulgarian presidency of the Union, Josep Borrell, foreign policy coordinator, said, "Today we will continue to discuss the situation in Ukraine. Unfortunately, the situation is not better. We see continued indiscriminate bombing of civilians and atrocities against prisoners of war. These Nuclear gambling at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant is a very dangerous thing, so the situation on the ground is still very bad. "Ukraine needs our support, and we will continue to provide that support. Both with military capabilities, as well as ministers will discuss the idea of ​​creating a high-level [EU] training mission for the Ukrainian army in order to have greater added value, to be more predictable and to provide strong support to the Ukrainians." And the Minister of Defense of Ukraine [Olexei Reznikov] will be with us, he will talk with us. That for me is the most important part of the meeting. "There are other issues. For example, how can we strengthen the European defense industry? How can we attract member states to buy more equipment, because we are depleting our stocks. We are providing so many capabilities to Ukraine that we have to refill our stocks. We will discuss other issues, but These are the most important. "Ukraine needs our support," Borrell concluded. We will continue to support Ukraine with more initiatives such as this training mission which will be discussed by the Ministers. In response to reporters' questions about the nature of the European mission, Borrell said: "Today, you know, it's an informal meeting, so no decision can be taken, but a general and comprehensive political agreement and that's what I think we have to get today. Later the details will come. We have - a complex procedure. Very - in order to define goals, purposes, dimensions and resources.But today I hope we will get a green light and a political green light for this task. In response to a question about submitting a non-paper in mid-August calling on member states to launch this new military assistance mission. Did the answers come from Poland or Romania that they agree? "Many member states will have different ideas, but the idea of ​​the training mission is an old one. We were discussing it even before the war started. So, the member states put this idea on the table. So, it's a moment of action, it is a moment of decision making," said the European Foreign Policy Coordinator. . In response to a question about what kind of training you will provide? What do they need? "You can imagine what kind of training. They need everything," Borrell said. The European official also denied there was a danger that this could be an escalation towards Russia. Russia will certainly not be happy. They are not happy with the idea that we offer all kinds of military equipment. We will continue to provide more military equipment. He declined to give some details about the proposal