{"id":585038,"date":"2025-11-21T16:27:28","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T16:27:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/585038\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T16:27:28","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T16:27:28","slug":"russia-has-no-legal-right-to-concessions-from-ukraine-eu-foreign-policy-chief-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/585038\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia &#8216;has no legal right&#8217; to concessions from Ukraine, EU foreign policy chief says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>BRUSSELS\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Russia has &#8220;no legal right whatsoever&#8221; to demand concessions from Ukraine, EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said Friday, stressing that any peace agreement must be determined solely by Kyiv.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking after the EU-Indo-Pacific Ministerial Forum in Brussels, the high representative said the war in Ukraine remains an &#8220;existential threat&#8221; to Europe and a direct challenge to the international rules-based order.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We all want this war to end, but how it ends matters,&#8221; Kallas said. &#8220;Rewarding Russia\u2019s aggression will not make Ukraine, Europe, or the Indo-Pacific safer. Russia has no legal right whatsoever to any concessions from the country it invaded.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ultimately, the terms of any agreement are for Ukraine to decide. The EU has a simple two-point plan: support Ukraine and pressure Russia,&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n<p>Kallas warned that calls to soften sanctions or delay discussions on using frozen Russian assets for Ukraine would only serve Moscow&#8217;s interests.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Today is supposed to be the day when the US sanctions against Russia will kick in. I hope we do not see today a decision that these sanctions are postponed, because, then, this is exactly what Russia wants,&#8221; she said, adding that the EU must avoid &#8220;walking into these traps.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The forum, bringing together representatives from 64 countries, also focused heavily on maritime security and the protection of undersea infrastructure, which carries 95% of trans-regional digital data.<\/p>\n<p>Kallas announced the launch of a new EU initiative aimed at strengthening the resilience of critical maritime infrastructure and encouraging innovation to protect sea lines of communication.<\/p>\n<p>Highlighting the EU&#8217;s three pillars of cooperation with the Indo-Pacific, security, economic partnership and sustainability, Kallas noted growing defense collaboration with Japan, South Korea, and India.<\/p>\n<p>                            &#13;<br \/>\n                                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/p\/subscription\/1001\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"font-size:12px; color:#444; text-decoration:none;\" rel=\"noopener\">&#13;<br \/>\n                                    Anadolu Agency website contains only a portion of the news stories offered to subscribers in the AA News Broadcasting System (HAS), and in summarized form. <b style=\"color:#1897F7\">Please contact us for subscription options.<\/b>&#13;<br \/>\n                                <\/a>&#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BRUSSELS\u00a0 Russia has &#8220;no legal right whatsoever&#8221; to demand concessions from Ukraine, EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":585039,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7655],"tags":[5340,2000,1699,2596,332,657],"class_list":{"0":"post-585038","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-russia","8":"tag-anadolu-ajansi","9":"tag-eu","10":"tag-european-union","11":"tag-kaja-kallas","12":"tag-russia","13":"tag-ukraine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115588631509155962","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=585038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585038\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/585039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=585038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=585038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=585038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}