After a short visit to Brussels, Beate Meinl Reisinger arrived for her first trip to the office in Ukraine, with a lot of solidarity and less factual, new help for the country in her luggage. How does the Neos party leader and the new Foreign Minister move to the public prosecutor’s office in international politics? The minister accompanied the “crown” to Kiev.
Beate Meinl-Reisinger achieved her first diplomatic negotiating success as the new Foreign Minister in Austria in Kiev with a bottle of wine in the night train. The green Veltliner under her arm, she breaks to the neighboring car shortly before 10 p.m., in which the Portuguese Foreign Minister travels to Ukraine and returns with six satelling the NATA sweet dishes from Lisbon. “Who wants? Two are still left,” she asks, and at that moment it seems that international politics is easier than expected.
Suddenly for a bombarded children’s hospital
A few hours later the world becomes more complicated. With Sunrise-the Train, there is currently a new chapter in the political career of Meinl-Reisinger also starts. Your twelve visit to the Ukrainian capital On Friday is her first big appearance in this position, after a very domestic political career. National councilor, city councilor, Neos Boss, and now she is here, for the children’s hospital Ochmatdyt destroyed by a Russian rocket, and she comes “Madness!” About the lips.
“My visit is more than a symbol,” she says, even when Austria is one of the smaller supporters of the attacked country. “We will play an important role, especially when it comes to reconstruction,” is a sentence that she will say more often that day.
“Austria will continue to support Ukraine”
She meets the Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrij Sybiha, who recently ceased -fire -fire -agreement with the Americans in Saudi Arabia. Sybiha routines are routinely, flowers are recorded, thank you for the solidarity and the absorption of Ukrainian refugees in Austria. “Austria will continue to support Ukraine,” says Meinl Reisinger to her Ukrainian counterpart for the press. Politics, economic, humanitarian. Your English is flawless, we are talking. Questions from Ukrainian journalists about the neutrality of Austria are resolutely answered. “We are only militarily neutral, not political,” she says.
High -Ranking Meeting with Senskyj
Then there is unrest in the delegation: a meeting with President Wolodyymyr Senskyj has just been confirmed during the day. It takes place behind closed doors, but the content is known: deep gratitude from the Ukrainian side, expressions of solidarity on the Austrian side. “You are not alone” is the message that Meinl Reisinger likes to send, and one that Senskyj likes to hear before he has to go to the next appointment.
What is in the interest of Austria?
The Minister of Foreign Affairs has faith in the new environment, only when the cameras have disappeared, does she admit: ‘I still have to learn a little. I am a politician, not a diplomat. Is that a disadvantage? “Look, …” she says. The minister often starts her penalties in an informal framework with “Look, …”. “I don’t believe. In times like this, politicians are challenged who make decisions. We have to wear the interests of Austria more in the world.
This means above all economic interests in and on Ukraine, keyword “rare earths”, but also safety interests for Austria with regard to Putin’s aggression war. How will we sit at the negotiating table under Minister of Foreign Affairs Meinl-Reisinger in the future? “Look, …” she says. “We will take a closer look at that.”
Source: Krone
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