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Roundup: Mogherini calls for revision of European security strategy

Xinhua, February 8, 2015 Adjust font size:

Foreign policy chief of the European Union (EU) Federica Mogherini called for the revision of the European security strategy in response to the changing environment on Sunday.

Mogherini said the EU has planned to build a new broad and deep strategy to echo the transformed global and regional circumstances.

"In a rapidly changing world we need to have a clear vision of the way ahead. This is why I have launched a process of strategic reflection to guide the EU's foreign and security policy," Mogherini said.

The existing European security strategy, a document proposed by her predecessor, Javier Solana, and was approved in 2003, according to her, is outdated.

"Twenty five years after the end of the old bipolar system, the world is far from being a unipolar one, nor is it truly multipolar," the EU top diplomat said, adding that the complexity, conflictuality, interdependence are three elements should be valued to shape the new world order.

She said the conflicts in Ukraine, Syria and Iraq are the most immediate and urgent challenges the EU aims to address. "Our strength comes from a balanced mix of diversity and unity," she said.

Mogherini said the EU relies on exhaustive diplomacy as a key instrument in putting an end to the conflict in Ukraine.

Referring to the initiative taken by German Chancellor Merkel and French President Hollande in the past days, she said "we do not know yet whether these efforts will succeed."

Meanwhile, she stressed that "there is no alternative solution to a diplomatic solution for this crisis." Endit