The foreign ministers of Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Germany supported the peace plan of Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko at a meeting held in Tallinn.
“We have supported the peace plan of the Ukrainian president and hope
the crisis can be resolved peacefully with support from the
international public,” Estonian Foreign Minister Urmas Paet told
Interfax on Tuesday.
He urged the European Union to be consistent in the issue of Ukraine.
Estonia supports the signing of the EU-Ukraine Association and Free
Trade Agreement in late June, the Estonian minister said, adding, “It is
also important to implement this agreement.”
Paet, German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Latvian
Foreign Minister Edgars Rinkevics and Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas
Linkevicius stressed the need to carry on the OSCE mission in Ukraine.
“The OSCE ad hoc mission holds a key role in helping the resolution
of this crisis,” Paet said. “It is necessary to do the utmost for the
maximum security of mission members so that they can accomplish their
duties.”
The ministers also discussed regional security issues in the context
of the upcoming NATO summit. “NATO and allies have achieved a
significant adjustment of deterrence and defense forces in the field of
security,” the Estonian foreign minister said.
“We believe that the NATO summit should concentrate on collective
defense and long-term deterrence capacities. The issues of partnership,
NATO enlargement, Afghanistan, cyber-security and UN resolution 1325 on
Women, Peace and Security will also be important to us at the Wales
summit,” Paet said.
The future of the European Union and the upcoming presidency of
Estonia in the Council of the Baltic Sea States were other issues on the
Tallinn meeting agenda.
