The heads of diplomacy of the European Union (EU) will debate this Monday, in Brussels, the support for Ukraine to face the Russian military aggression, on the eve of the last summit of leaders of the year, which takes place on Thursday.
Two days after the Council of the European Union reached an agreement to unblock the macro-financial aid package for Ukraine for 2023, amounting to 18,000 million euros, bypassing the blockade on Hungary, the foreign ministers will focus on not on the material support that the community bloc can continue to provide to Kiev, militarily but also to help the Ukrainians and to face the winter between power outages caused by Russian attacks on critical infrastructure.
As usual in recent months, the head of Ukrainian diplomacy, Dmytro Kuleba, will participate in the meeting via videoconference, to report on 27 of the latest events on the ground, as well as Ukraine’s most urgent support needs. . .
The Council will also receive an operational update on the work of the EU military assistance mission in support of Ukraine, following the visit of the High Representative for Foreign and Security Policy, Josep Borrell, to the mission’s training facilities in Brzeg, Poland, December 2
This meeting of the Council on Foreign Affairs, in which Portugal will be represented by Minister João Gomes Cravinho, also has on its agenda the imposition of new sanctions on Iran, after the repression of protests over the death of the young Masha Amini and also the military support that Tehran is giving to Moscow,
The Council of Foreign Affairs Ministers, the last of 2022 and which takes place three days before what will also be the last summit of Heads of State and Government on the 27th of the year, will be preceded this morning by a meeting of heads of State diplomacy with their Eastern Partnership counterparts (Ukraine, Moldova, Azerbaijan, Armenia and Georgia).
Source: TSF
