Berlin [Germany]May 15 (ANI): US Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba next to the NATO Foreign Ministers’ meeting in Berlin on Sunday and discussed security and financial assistance to Kyiv.
“Met FM @DmytroKuleba before today’s @NATO Foreign Ministers’ meeting to discuss the security and financial assistance that Ukraine needs to defend itself against Russia’s unprovoked war. Our support for Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity remains constant and lasting,” Blinken told USA. Secretary of State Ned Price, in a statement, said the two discussed this week’s G7 and NATO Foreign Ministers’ meetings and the Secretary stressed the strong support for Ukraine from allies and partners during these meetings.
Blinken provided details about the latest part of US security support to strengthen Ukraine’s defense, Price said.
“Secretary and Foreign Minister Kuleba also discussed the effects of Russia’s brutal war, including on global food security, and undertook to seek a solution for exporting Ukraine’s grain to international markets. war “, said the spokesman for the Foreign Ministry.
NATO foreign ministers met in Berlin on Sunday to discuss Finland’s and Sweden’s possible membership application and to confirm NATO’s support for Ukraine in the wake of Russia’s invasion.
To the media via video link together with German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock, Stoltenberg said that Sweden and Finland are NATO’s closest partners and if they decide to apply for membership, it would be “historic”.
“Their membership in NATO would increase our shared security, show that NATO’s door is open and that aggression does not pay,” Stoltenberg said, reiterating that all sovereign nations have the right to choose their own path.
At the end of the two-day ministerial meeting, Stoltenberg said that the Allies also discussed support for Ukraine, which further strengthened NATO’s deterrence and defense, as well as the long-term consequences of the “Russia war” against Ukraine. (ANI)
Source: sn.dk