<h6><strong>Eduardo González</strong></h6> <h4><strong>The Minister of Foreign Affairs, José Manuel Albares, warned this Wednesday that “an unjust war cannot end with an unjust peace”, in response to the alleged agreement reached this same day between the president of the United States, Donald Trump, and the president of Russia, Vladimir Putin, to begin “immediate negotiations” to end the war in Ukraine.</strong></h4> As Trump explained on his social network Truth Social, the agreement with Putin was reached after a “long and very productive phone call” in which both leaders expressed their will to “stop the millions of deaths that are taking place in the war between Russia and Ukraine”. “I am not aware of the legitimate conversations that the US president is having, but what is important is not what others do, but what we Europeans are going to do at any given time,” Albares said in Paris, before the start of the meeting of the foreign ministers of Germany, Spain, France, Italy, Poland and the United Kingdom (the support group for Ukraine, G5+) with the EU High Representative for Foreign and Security Policy, Kaja Kallas, and the Ukrainian Foreign Minister, Andrii Sybiha. “An unjust war cannot end with an unjust peace, it would not be good for European security but it would not be good for stability in the world either,” because “no one would be sure that their most powerful neighbour does not want a piece of their territorial integrity or sovereignty,” Albares continued. “The Europeans, and of course Spain, want peace for Ukraine, and of course the Ukrainians too, but we want an unjust war to end with a just peace,” he insisted. The minister also warned that “nothing can be decided on Ukraine without Ukraine, and nothing can be decided on European security and Russian aggression against Ukraine, which clearly affects European security, without Europe, especially since Europe – and we are about to enter, unfortunately, the fourth year of Russian aggression against Ukraine – has been supporting Ukraine all this time.” <h5><strong><img class="alignnone wp-image-108381 size-full" src="https://thediplomatinspain.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/G5-^sr.jpg" alt="" width="750" height="500" /></strong><strong>G5+</strong></h5> At the end of the meeting, the G5+ group adopted a joint statement in which the signatories commit to “continue supporting Ukraine until a fair, comprehensive and lasting peace is achieved, a peace that guarantees the interests of Ukraine and ours”-. “We look forward to discussing the way forward together with our American allies,” the text continues. “Our shared objectives must be to put Ukraine in a position of strength. Ukraine and Europe must be part of any negotiation. Ukraine must have strong security guarantees. A fair and lasting peace in Ukraine is a necessary condition for strong transatlantic security,” it adds. “We remember that the security of the European continent is our common responsibility. Therefore, we are working together to strengthen our collective defense capabilities,” the statement concludes. “There can be no fair peace in Ukraine without the Europeans,” Albares declared through social networks. In his statements prior to the meeting, Albares warned of the need to address, apart from “the Russian aggression against Ukraine”, the threats “that may come from the southern neighbourhood”, as well as “the means that Europe has to deal with these threats”. “Where these means are not sufficient, we have to analyse the best way to finance them”, explained Albares. “What we have to be clear about is that, if the threat is at a European level, the solution, the response, the means, the financing, must also be European”, he warned. On the other hand, Albares held a bilateral meeting with Kaja Kallas, with whom he discussed “European security and defence, Ukraine and the Middle East”, according to the minister’s statement on social media. “European unity is essential. We work in full harmony in the face of global challenges”, he added.
