British Foreign Secretary David Cameron met his German counterpart Annalena Baerbock in Berlin on Thursday to discuss support for Ukraine, including the provision of long-range missile systems.<\/p>\n
The UK-Germany Strategic Dialogue was established in 2021 to facilitate more in-depth discussion of current foreign policy issues. This time, the meeting was preceded by a renewed public debate over the supply of German Taurus long-range missiles to Ukraine.<\/p>\n
“Unless a NATO soldier is killing a Russian soldier, nothing should stop us helping,” Cameron told the closing press conference, expressing scepticism about claims that the new weapons systems would escalate the conflict.<\/p>\n
Britain has been supplying long-range missiles to Ukraine for some time, but German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has so far blocked any such move by his country.<\/p>\n
The German-made Taurus missiles have a range of 500 kilometres and can hit targets with great precision.<\/p>\n
Although both ministers agreed that discussions on the differences should take place behind closed doors, Cameron expressed his support for providing Ukraine with long-range weapons. “Of course we also come to the question of what we can achieve in terms of medium and long-range missiles,” Cameron said, arguing that peace is ‘achieved by force, by showing that Putin cannot win’.<\/p>\n
Without directly referring to long-range weapons systems, Baerbock agreed that ‘anyone who wants to put an end to Russia’s deliberate war of aggression and destruction must now mobilise all means of self-defence for Ukraine’. The German minister also argued that ‘those who ignore this are acting negligently’.<\/p>\n
Cameron also stressed the need to support Ukraine, saying that it should ask itself whether it had ‘given them everything they need to win’.<\/p>\n
The German Foreign Minister responded by saying that ‘the German government asks itself every day what more we can do to support Ukraine as a whole’.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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