NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg (middle, Jens Stoltenberg) met with Ukrainian Foreign Minister Kuleba (left, Dmytro Kuleba) and European Union High Representative for External Affairs Borrell (right, Josep Borrell) at the NATO headquarters today. Meet the first tripartite talks.

(Associated Press)

[Central News Agency] NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg responded to Russian President Vladimir Putin's State of the Nation address in a tripartite meeting with the European Union and Ukraine today, accusing Putin of announcing the suspension of the arms limitation treaty as a way to move towards World War III.

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Kuleba expressed prudent expectations for China's proposal for a Russia-Ukraine peace plan.

The first-ever three-way talks at the Brussels headquarters of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) focused on how to quickly and efficiently provide Ukraine with the weapons it needs.

As Putin (Vladimir Putin) just made a statement on the war this morning, Jens Stoltenberg (Jens Stoltenberg) also responded at the press conference after the talks.

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"The one who has been escalating (tensions) is Putin, who has invaded Ukraine for a year and has given no indication that he wants to seek peace and is instead heading towards World War III," he said.

Putin announced a unilateral suspension of the "New START Treaty" with the United States in his State of the Union address. Stoltenberg urged him to abandon this intention and return to the treaty to avoid a greater disaster.

The U.S.-Russia bilateral treaty, which came into effect in 2011 and expires in 2026, is the only major arms limitation agreement between the two powers. It aims to limit the number of nuclear weapons deployed by both sides.

Therefore, Putin's decision today once again raised the outside world's doubts about whether Russia will use nuclear weapons in the Russo-Ukraine war.

Stoltenberg also mentioned that there are signs that China may assist Russia militarily, but EU High Representative for External Affairs Josep Borrell said that Wang Yi, director of the Office of the Foreign Affairs Commission of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, said during the recent Munich Security Conference Tell him that China "does not and will not" support Russian weapons.

Porrell did not deny that he had established a good relationship with Wang Yi in the past in the Spanish diplomatic circles. He thought the conversation between the two in Munich was "frank". Wang Yi also asked him why the EU provided weapons to Ukraine, which made him struggle explain.

Dmytro Kuleba was asked about Ukraine's opinion on Wang Yi's claim that he would propose a peace plan for the Russia-Ukraine war.

He said that Wang Yi shared part of the content during the meeting with him. He expected China to make progress in promoting peace, but the Ukrainian side could not respond until it saw the full details of the Chinese proposal.

Kuleba emphasized that the positions of China and Ukraine have one thing in common, which is to maintain territorial integrity.

"If the outcome of this war is for Russia to destroy the territorial integrity of other countries, the rest of the world may also be destroyed."

In seeking Western military aid, Kuleba said that currently he is most concerned about three issues: how to efficiently train the Ukrainian army (using Western aid weapons), how to speed up the production and acquisition of weapons, and how to deploy these weapons to the battlefield.

Porrell pointed out that the EU will hold a meeting of defense ministers to discuss more specific approaches. The three major directions are first to use existing stockpiles of weapons, second is to accelerate the production of more weapons, and third is to try to increase the production capacity of the defense industry.

Stoltenberg said that NATO has a long-standing practice of obtaining weapons, and will further cooperate with the EU, not only to assist Ukraine in obtaining the weapons it currently needs, but also to continue to guarantee Ukraine's security after the war ends, so as to prevent Russia from committing any crimes again. .

Over the past few months, the West's military aid decisions and actions to Ukraine have often been criticized for being too slow. Kuleba said that although he is grateful for the Western military aid, "it is still far from enough, otherwise we would be celebrating today." The war is over."