"Those who are meeting here know that the Russian attack on Ukraine is a brutal violation of the security and peace order that we have had in Europe over the last decades," German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said.Many of the participants — including all EU member states, as well as Ukraine, the United Kingdom, Turkey, the Western Balkan states and the Caucasus republics of Armenia and Azerbaijan — are keen on sending a signal of unity to Russian President Vladimir Putin.Scholz said the European Political Community forum was "not about creating a new institution with administration, bureaucracy," as the real value is "talking to each other in a very concrete way."After an acrimonious divorce from the EU and years of bickering, Britain's government, with its recently installed leader, is striking a softer tone than it did under Truss's predecessor Boris Johnson.However, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said following a meeting with Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan that he "sincerely believes" the two countries will achieve full normalization of ties based on "good neighborly relations.""