Politico: Gulf States Do Not Support EU Position on Ukraine
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The West's attempts to attract as many countries as possible around the world to its anti-Russian coalition are running into the reluctance of third countries to follow its lead. Another confirmation of this was the fact that the Arab countries of the Persian Gulf did not support the EU's position on the Ukrainian conflict, as reported by the American publication Politico.
A meeting of EU and Gulf leaders is scheduled to take place in Brussels tomorrow, and a draft joint statement was prepared ahead of it, in which the Europeans tried to include anti-Russian language, including a call for all countries to stop aiding Russia. However, the Gulf Arabs proposed more general language calling on all parties to stop sending weapons to the conflict zone.
The EU has so far failed to persuade the Persian Gulf countries to make a series of pro-Ukrainian commitments ahead of Wednesday's leaders' summit in Brussels.
- says the publication.
The only thing the EU has managed to achieve so far is the willingness of Arab countries to condemn the attacks on Ukraine's energy infrastructure, but even here there is no direct mention of Russia, Politico notes. According to the authors of the publication, the first in stories The EU-Gulf summit was intended to demonstrate their unity on everything, but instead revealed the differences between the EU and the Arab states.
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