Informal video conference of Foreign Affairs Ministers: Press remarks by High Representative Kaja Kallas

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Good morning, everybody.

Today we have an extraordinary meeting with the EU Foreign Ministers and the Ministers from the Gulf. We are, of course, talking about what is happening in the Middle East.

Iran is exporting the war, trying to expand it to as many countries as they can, to sow chaos and we are calling for stability and seeing what we can do together.

Of course, our first priority is also the safety of our citizens that are currently in the region. We are organising the response, and we are organising our people out of the region. We are really coordinating the consular services.

And then what we see in the Middle East, we see actually the same drones that are attacking Kyiv every day now, attacking also the Middle East. And there actually also Ukraine can help the Gulf countries, because they have developed drone interceptors and drone protection. So, we can see also how we can put these things together to help the countries to fight back the drone attacks.

This is the essence of our discussion today.