The Minister of Foreign Affairs, José Manuel Albares, travels this afternoon to Kiev to keep an encounter tomorrow with his Ukrainian counterpart, Dimitri Kuleba, whom he intends to express the “solidarity” of Spain and the allies in the crisis unleashed by Russia.
It is, in words of albares, one more step in the strategy of “high intensity diplomacy” that are deploying European partners to curb tension and avoid a conflict escalation.
“We intend to join efforts so that dialogue triumphs,” he said.
Albares will then move to the French city of Lyon to participate in a joint meeting of the Foreign Ministers and Health of the EU, apart from which it will also keep an encounter with the head of Diplomacy Gala, Jean-Yves Le Drian
, and later he will travel to Brussels to meet with the NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, and with the High Representative for the EU Foreign Policy, Josep Borrell.
Despite the high-voltage climate between Russia and the allies, Spanish diplomacy maintains that “dialogue lines remain open” and that all actors in conflict “accept that this is the moment of diplomacy”.
Despite this, Russia maintains deployed at the border with Ukraine more than 120,000 soldiers and, at the moment he has not given a step back in the pressure.
In this sense, the deposit of Moscow is understood to the announcement of France, after the meeting between Macron and Putin, pointing to the alleged Will of the Kremlin not to activate new military maneuvers in the border territory with Ukraine.
Albares insists on launching, despite the “volatile situation”, a message of tranquility, emphasizing that “war can not be a solution or hypothesis”.
Diplomatic sources emphasize that this crisis should be solved by Europeans and affirm that all of them are convinced that “you can not go back accepting the existence of spheres of influence or states that see its limited sovereignty.”
“This, and the principles themselves sustaining the EU, is what is at stake,” they add.
