Giorgia Melon has criticised the EU’s uncoordinated approach to peace negotiations with Russia in a letter sent to European Council President Antónnio Costa on Thursday.
According to Euronews, the Italian prime minister criticised the fact that European leaders have recently undertaken several different initiatives, without a common direction or a clear mandate.
The letter comes at a time when officials from France, Germany and the United Kingdom, known as the group É3ʹ, are meeting in Brussels with representatives from the United States and Ukraine to discuss how to end the war.
Acting disorganized, with initiatives that follow and overlap, will not help us in our relationship with our partners, nor with those we have to convince to end a senseless aggression. […] All of this is making us less reliable, says the letter.
Mellon is under pressure within the country, where the opposition accuses its government of being insignificant in the international arena, while some political forces including some within its majority appeal for an end to military aid for Ukraine.
On paper, Melon lists examples of this dynamic, including an informal meeting in Miami, attended by national security advisers from several European states, Ukraine, NATO and EU representatives, as well as a telephone conversation between the leaders of Finland and Norway and Russian President Vladimir Putin.
It also criticised the addition of the negotiating groups, such as the EU/EU-member and non-member EU Group É350, which consists of Germany, France, Poland and NATO representatives G7 and the EU.
Melon demanded that this issue be discussed at the informal meeting of the European Council in Dublin next week, with the goal of determining how the EU should be represented in peace talks.
Europe must speak in a single voice about the Ukrainian cause. This need cannot be postponed further, she wrote.
A crucial round of talks between Ukrainian and Russian negotiators, with the mediation of American officials, will take place in Abu Dhabi on November 10th and 11th, where security agreements and reduced tensions will be discussed. /Telegraph/