'CONCRETE PEACE TALKS' SOON! Merz Says Europe To Join Ukraine Negotiations | Times Now World

Concrete peace talks in which Europe is represented are set to take place for the first time in the coming weeks. For us, this has always been a given. No decisions about Europe without Europe, and no decisions about Ukraine without Ukraine. This will probably happen in the circle of the Europeans who were in Abu Dhabi this week. Germany is set, that's clear. And of course we will continue to represent common European interests there. Russia wants to talk about questions of a European security architecture. We don't need to talk about that. There is one. It is NATO in particular, and the European part of NATO. We, as Europeans here in Dublin, agree it was Moscow, and only Moscow, that destroyed the existing security order from Helsinki. That is the usual game you see again and again from the Kremlin spokesman in particular. There was a clear message yesterday evening. We agree with the Americans. I want to repeat it one more time. No talks about Ukraine without Ukraine. And no talks about Europe without Europe. And we don't need to talk about a European security architecture. We have one. We also know that President Trump plans to talk to President Putin about Ukraine in China next week. Here in Dublin, some fear that could become a second Anchorage moment, so to speak. So I want to set out our message to the US, again, very clearly. Please, no surprises. Continue to play in Team Europe and in the team with Ukraine. And let's work together for real peace in Ukraine. We will, of course, continue to discuss the European Union's representation. There are institutional representatives. Kaja Kalas is, of course, one of them. But the E3 format has also proven very effective. Incidentally, we always include Italy and Poland. That was also the case last night. In that regard, I don't see any need to have an institutional debate at the moment.