Santander (EFE).- The former Secretary General of NATO Javier Solana has requested this Tuesday a dialogue between Russia and Ukraine because “it cannot be that the only contact is the bullets.”
In statements to journalists at the Menéndez Pelayo International University (UIMP) in Santander, Solana pointed out that this agreement “is not impossible”, although he does not see it as “close”.
Javier Solana has expressed himself like this before participating in a course on the protagonists of the European Union, which has had as speakers for several weeks various former community officials such as Joaquín Almunia or Miguel Arias Cañete.
Within the framework of the summer courses of the Menéndez Pelayo International University (UIMP), in Santander, where this initiative is developed within the Spanish Presidency of the EU, he has opined that “it is outrageous” that the conflict in Ukraine continues ” without any will to speak”.
Even so, the former high representative of the European Union has acknowledged that there have been “some movements with the particular situation in Russia” or the sending of two people from the United States to Moscow “discreetly”.
“I think it is very important to speak. It does not have to be publicly, it can be discreetly, but it cannot be that the only contact is the bullets ”, she has reiterated.
Solana has also regretted Russia’s withdrawal from the grain export agreement, because it means that the war “is being fought in Europe” but “has consequences throughout the world.” “It seems to me a brutal thing not to let him do it,” said Solana, who has trusted that the agreement is viable.
“We are making a mess. The fact that we do not know that we are capable of helping the poorest countries because we have a war in the richest countries is truly unfortunate ”, he said.