Weimar+: press remarks by High Representative/Vice-President Kaja Kallas ahead of the meeting

Good morning everybody,It is great to be back in the UK. Today we are going to discuss very important topics, including the EU-UK relations and of course what is happening in Ukraine and how we can really proceed with the ceasefire and also peace in the end. Right now, we have seen what Putin has said, but what they have done, overnight – again, over 100 drone attacks on Ukraine. In order to go into any peace talks, there has to be a ceasefire. We also need to see that Russia wants this, to show goodwill to sit down and talk to Ukrainians. It is not there. We have to put pressure on Russia to really want peace, and to sit down and to talk with Ukraine. On EU-UK relations, we have the negotiations going on about the Defence and Security Partnership. It think the partnership is very important in this very turbulent time. And that our very close partner, the UK, and the EU, have this relationship. Also regarding defence and security, we already have a lot of cooperation points. We need to develop them further. So, I am hoping that we get this agreement signed in the EU-UK Summit that is coming up next week. Q&A. Q. At that Summit, what is the EU looking for specifically from the UK [inaudible]?Specifically, we are looking into cooperation regarding cyber security, regarding crisis response cooperation, regarding different topics where we already exchange information – intelligence sharing and all this part that makes us both stronger. Q. How significant is that partnership, do...