The European Union must make it clear that Russian breaches of international law in Ukraine are unacceptable, Greece’s foreign minister said, on the eve of the fourth anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of its western neighbor.
George Gerapetritis said that EU foreign ministers meeting in Brussels Monday would declare their determination to keep supporting Ukraine, and also to impose “targeted sanctions [on Russia] that will produce a useful result.”
“We must categorically declare that attacks on civilians and energy infrastructure constitute a very clear breach of international law and are not acceptable,” Gerapetritis told journalists outside the meeting venue.
He also stressed that Greece is in favor of exhausting all possibilities of achieving a diplomatic resolution to the current crisis between Iran and the United States.
“Any further escalation would create conditions for great turmoil in the region,” Gerapetritis said.