Remarks by the EU High Representative/Vice-President Josep Borrell: the European Union supports the ceasefire in Libya:
Today [27th August], we have had the first physical meeting of Defence Ministers since the outbreak of the coronavirus in March.
I am sure that coming together has allowed us to go deeper into the several sensitive issues that we have to deal with in this difficult summer.
First, I would like to thank the German Presidency and, especially, the Minister [of Defence of Germany, Annegret] Kramp-Karrenbauer for the excellent hospitality and for the excellent organisation of this meeting, and allowing us to meet under the current difficult circumstances.
We have had several topics.
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We will be working closely with the United Nations Mission in Libya and we are ready to support this ceasefire as much as we can.
We already have a civilian mission deployed in Libya [EUBAM] and this military operation [Operation IRINI] at sea. We will see if we can do more.
And finally, we have had our second session devoted to the new Strategic Compass on security and defence.
(Source: EU)
