The 28 EU Member States agreed on Thursday evening, 11 April, on a joint statement calling for an immediate end to all military operations.
The day before, a first attempt at a declaration had failed following comments from France (see EUROPE B12234A22), which was taken into account in this second declaration, according to a French source.
Thus, the High Representative's statement, on behalf of the Twenty-Eight, calls on “all parties to immediately cease all military operations”....