Chancellor Karl Nehammer says he held ‘very direct, open and hard’ talks with the Russian president in Moscow.
Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer has mentioned that he urged Russian President Vladimir Putin to finish the invasion of Ukraine and raised the problem of “critical struggle crimes” dedicated by the Russian army throughout talks in Moscow.
Nehammer was the primary European chief to fulfill Putin since Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine on February 24.
In an announcement launched after the assembly on Monday, the Austrian chancellor mentioned his main message to Putin within the “very direct, open and hard” talks was that “this struggle wants to finish, as a result of in struggle each side can solely lose”.
Nehammer instructed Putin all these chargeable for struggle crimes within the Ukrainian metropolis of Bucha and elsewhere can be “held to account.”
He additionally confused the necessity to open humanitarian corridors in order that civilians trapped in cities underneath assault can entry fundamental provides like meals and water, in line with his assertion.
The Austrian chief known as the Moscow journey his “responsibility” to exhaust each risk for ending the violence in Ukraine, coming simply two days after he travelled to Kyiv for talks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
European Union-member Austria supported the 27-nation bloc’s sanctions towards Russia, although it to date has opposed chopping off deliveries of Russian gasoline. The nation is militarily impartial and isn't a member of NATO.
Navy however not ethical neutrality
However Nehammer and different Austrian officers have been eager to emphasize that army neutrality doesn't imply ethical neutrality.
“We're militarily impartial, however have a transparent place on the Russian struggle of aggression towards Ukraine,” Nehammer wrote on Twitter on Sunday. “It should cease!”
Nehammer mentioned he instructed Putin the EU is “as united because it’s ever been” on the problem of sanctions, and that these will stay in place – and will even be strengthened – if the struggle continues.
Critics at house
Whereas German Chancellor Olaf Scholz mentioned he welcomed the assembly, the reactions at house have included shock and scepticism.
Conservative Nehammer’s coalition associate, the left-wing Greens, criticised the go to.
“I can't condone a go to to Putin,” the Greens’ international affairs spokesperson Ewa Ernst-Dziedzic wrote on Twitter.
“This has nothing to do with diplomacy. That is additionally not an agreed roadmap for negotiations. Putin will use this for his propaganda.”
Reinhard Heinisch, a professor of comparative Austrian politics on the College of Salzburg, wrote on Twitter: “Let’s hope there may be extra to the Austrian chancellor #Nehammer’s go to to Putin than has been mentioned and meets the attention. Austria has all too typically served the position of Moscow’s helpful fool previously.”
Let’s hope there may be extra to the Austrian chancellor #Nehammer’s go to to Putin than has been mentioned and meets the attention. Austria has all too typically served the position of Moscow’s helpful fool previously.
— reinhard heinisch (@reinhardheinis1) April 11, 2022
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