Finnish Foreign Minister Elina Valtonen and High EU Foreign Affairs Kaja Kallas discussed with US Minister Marco Rubio over the phone.
Veikko Eromäki,
Laura Kangas
20: 21 • Updated 20:47
Finnish Foreign Minister Elina Valtonen (co.) says that he has discussed the US Foreign Minister on the phone Marco Rubion with. Valtonen says Message Service in X.
According to Valtonen, Finland and the United States are sharing the same goals in defending democracy, safety and economy. Both countries also want to end the Russian offensive war in Ukraine, says Valtonen.
According to Valtonen, the debate also talked about cooperation between Finland and the United States in terms of icebreakers.
– There is tremendous potential for deepening our cooperation in many areas, Valtonen writes.
Kallaskin got Rubio on the phone
Until now, the US Minister of Foreign Affairs had been in contact with the country’s allies in Asia and the Middle East, but European leaders had almost completely missed attention.
Rubio had already talked to the Polish Foreign Minister last week, recently he had called at least Britain and France. Only today was the turn of the EU representative: the high representative of the EU Foreign Affairs Kaja Kallas says in X that he has talked to Rubio over the phone.
– Good call with Foreign Minister Rubio. We discussed global problems where the EU and the US share the same interests, such as the Russian war in Ukraine, Iranian malice and the challenges of China, Kallas writes.
According to Kallas, “the EU and the US will always be stronger together”. Kallas says he is expecting to meet with Rubio “soon”.
Earlier today Online news told me Kallas complained to Estonian media that it is difficult to contact the US administration. Kallas had already invited Foreign Minister Rubio to Brussels, but he had not yet accepted the invitation.
Now Kallas seems to have had a connection with the US leadership.
For more information about the Reuters EU source
According to the Reuters EU authority source, Kallas had expressed Foreign Minister Rubio to be prepared to take more responsibility and invest in defense and diversify his energy imports.
According to the EU source, “Kallas and Rubio both saw as necessary to maintain the most powerful possible pressure in Moscow” to bring fair and sustainable peace in the Ukrainian war.
Source: Reuters