Austrian Foreign Minister Alexander Salenberg has criticized the withdrawal of diplomats from Kiev, the Ukrainian capital, over fears that Russia would invade.
“I think you are asking a lot of questions to the people of Ukraine if you withdraw your diplomats,” Salenberg told the Funke media group in his newspapers published today.
The Austrian Foreign Minister stressed that he had decided “to keep the staff of the Austrian embassy in their positions during this fluid period, as long as this is still justified”.
The United States and other countries are moving some of their diplomatic staff outside their embassies in the Ukrainian capital, a decision also criticized by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
Asked about the current visit of German Chancellor Olaf Solz to Russia for talks, Salenberg said: “We are open to serious talks with Moscow, but we also send a clear message that Russia will face huge political and “financial costs if it launches a further military offensive against Ukraine.”
“I am convinced that Chancellor Soltz will continue to weigh in on this common European position in Moscow,” added the Austrian foreign minister, who believes that Europe must play a more active role in resolving the conflict.
“It is the European Union that has the closest economic ties with Russia – and therefore has the greatest potential to exert influence,” he explained.
Mr. Salenberg also criticized US President Joe Biden, who recently spoke of the danger of a “world war” over the crisis in Ukraine, calling the use of such phraseology “extremely dangerous.”
SOURCE: AMPE
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