Foreign Affairs Council: Kaja Kallas fai • Table.Briefings

Kaja KALLAS (High Representative of the EU for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, HIGH REPRESENTATIVE) — EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs Kaja Kallas at the Foreign Affairs Council in Brussels: She called on the foreign ministers to speak as freely as possible and to dispense with prepared speech texts.

EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs Kaja Kallas set a new course at her first Foreign Affairs Council but immediately came up against old blockades. Together with Slovakia, Hungary blocked sanctions against Georgia’s pro-Russian leadership.

Kaja Kallas is known for her plain speaking. However, in her new role as EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs, her skills as a moderator are now particularly important. A Foreign Affairs Council is definitely different from a summit, said the former Estonian head of government. On the agenda on Monday were the change of power in Syria, developments in Georgia and the situation in Ukraine. Quick answers are now expected from the new EU foreign policy chief everywhere. She has sent a top EU diplomat to Syria’s capital in order to „establish contacts with the new government and the people there,“ said Kaja Kallas.

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