A two-day informal meeting of EU defense ministers in the framework of Greece's rotating EU presidency ended in Athens on Friday with a plea to end the chaos in Ukraine. "Our meeting has demonstrated the dynamic Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) agenda. Ukraine was not on the agenda, but we followed closely developments on the ground and yesterday's Foreign Affairs Council," Dimitris Avramopoulos, Greek National Defense Minister, told a press briefing. "The European Union, its bodies and institutions are in position and should act as a guarantee power to overcome this crisis," said Avramopoulos, acting as chairman of the meeting on behalf of EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton. On the agenda of talks were the follow up to the December European Council on security and defence, ongoing EU operations, and the situation in the Central African Republic. Avramopoulos noted that ministers supported the way forward to shape the CSDP in coming months, stressing there was a lot of work ahead on the follow-up to the December European Council. The "tangible results" of the four ongoing EU military missions in the Horn of Africa against piracy, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Mali and Somalia, as well as the upcoming operation in the Central African Republic in order to protect civilians, are a "clear confirmation" of the growing role of the Union as a security provider, the Greek official said.