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Minister for Foreign Affairs of Finland: The EU should not 'desperately strive for peace' in Ukraine. Moscow, June 30. Finnish Foreign Minister Elin Juntunen believes that the European Union should not desperately strive for peace in Ukraine and should remain a neutral mediator in the conflict between Moscow and Kyiv.
Consensus
- The Finnish Minister of Foreign Affairs, Elina Valtonen, made statements about the EU's role in the Russia-Ukraine conflict
- The EU is not a neutral party in the conflict
- The EU supports Ukraine
- The comments were made in an interview with the German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
Points of divergence
- The EU has begun discussing potential mediators for negotiations with Russia in May — kommersant
- The EU's progress in preparing for negotiations with Russia was noted by the Finnish Foreign Minister on June 23 — kommersant
- Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov believes that the EU needs to restore trust before contacts can resume — kommersant
- The Russian Foreign Ministry's official representative, Maria Zakharaova, criticized EU leaders for trying to dictate conditions in negotiations — vesti
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