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French President Emmanuel Macron said that a truce between Ukraine and Russia can be agreed in the coming weeks.
He was talking to Fox News in Washington after talks with Donald Trump at the White House on the third anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Russia.
The American president, who suggested that the war be over “within weeks”, insisted that Europe should bear the cost and burden of any peacekeeping deal for Ukraine.
Macron said that any peace deal in Ukraine should “not be a surrender to Ukraine” and must be supported by security guarantees.
The French leader said that Trump’s arrival for a second term at the White House was “the game change.”
He said he believed it was “possible” to talk about a truce in the war and start negotiations for sustainable peace within weeks.
Macron said he had spoken to 30 other European leaders and allies, and many of them were ready to be part of the security guarantees of Ukraine.
He said he was working with British Prime Minister Sir Kerr Starmer on a proposal to send forces to the area.
Macron said: “Do not go to the confrontation line, and not to go in the confrontation, but to be in some locations, it is defined through the treaty, such as the presence of this peace and our collective credibility with the backup of the United States,” Macron said.
He added that the negotiations that end from the fighting will cover “security guarantees, lands and regions.”
He said that one of the best ways to secure the United States’ commitment to Ukrainian sovereignty will be through a deal on critical minerals, which are currently negotiating by Washington and Kiev.
On another mark on Washington’s transformation of the global stage, the decision of the United States, which adopted a neutral stance on the conflict, was adopted by the United Nations Security Council. It was supported by Russia, but with France and the United Kingdom.
At a joint press conference after his meeting with Macron on Monday, Trump did not mention security guarantees, but he said that the cost of peace insurance in Ukraine should be paid for it by European countries and not only the United States.
Macron answered that Europe understood the need to “share the security burden more just” and added that on Monday’s talks showed a way forward.
Trump said he wanted to stop the shooting as soon as possible, adding that he would visit Russia to meet President Vladimir Putin as soon as one agreed.
However, Macron has paid a more studies related to calm and then a broader peace agreement that would include clear guarantees to protect Ukraine in the long run.
“We want peace quickly, but we do not want a weak agreement,” he said.
However, the couple agreed that any peace deal should include the deployment of European peacekeepers in Ukraine. This proposal was directly rejected by Russia.
“They will not be along the front lines. They will not be part of any conflict. They will be there to ensure respect for peace,” Macron said at the Oval Office.
Then Trump said that Russian President Vladimir Putin would accept this. “I specifically asked him this question. He has no problem with it,” he said.
The French president praised Trump’s efforts to interact with Putin in recent weeks, saying that there has been a “good reason” to do so.
Trump refused to call Putin a “dictator” after using the term last week to describe the President of Ukraine.
“I don’t know when we will talk,” Trump said. “At some point I will meet President Putin.”
Ukraine President Volodimir Zellinsky also called to the White House to conclude a deal to exchange some natural resources in the country. “It may come this week or next week,” Trump said. “I love him.”
While there were no moments of the open dispute between Trump and Makon, the French president boycotted his American counterpart in the Oval Office to respond to his claim that the European Union’s assistance to Ukraine was all in the form of loans.
“No, to be honest, we have paid. We have paid 60 % of the total voltage,” Macron said.
Trump replied, “If you think that, there is nothing wrong with me.”
Zelensky attended an event with international actors in Kyiv where “We hope we can end this war this year,” he said.
Other leaders, including from the United Kingdom, Germany and Japan, spoke by the video link. There was no representation for us.
German President Frank Walter Steinmeier recently addressed the regional relations between Moscow and Washington.
“Perhaps Russia has acquired an open ear in the White House, but it has not acquired an inch of legitimacy,” he said.
“We must accelerate the delivery of weapons and ammunition.”
She said that the war remained a “central crisis and raising for the future of Europe.”
The side of the United States with Russia at the United Nations
Also on Monday, The United States stopped twice with Russia in the voices of the United Nations It relates to the war in Ukraine.
The two countries first opposed a European paved resolution condemning Moscow’s actions and supporting the regional safety of Ukraine, which was finally approved by the United Nations General Assembly in New York.
UNGA members supported the European decision with 93 votes, but the United States did not abstain between them, but they actually voted against it, along with Russia, Israel, North Korea, Sudan, Ballarosia, Hungary and 11 other states.
Then the United States and Russia supported a fishing resolution in the United States of the United Nations Security Council calling for ending the conflict but not criticizing Russia.
The Security Council resolution was approved, but two American allies, the United Kingdom and France, were abstained from voting after their attempts to amend the formulation.
Meanwhile, the European Union and the United Kingdom approved a new round of sanctions against Russia on Monday. The sanctions in the European Union have been approved, the sixteenth round since the invasion of Russia, the goal of Russian aluminum exports, and the “shadow fleet” of ships that are allegedly exceeding the sanctions.
The UK sanctions target the tools and electronics of the machines used by the Russian army and the North Korean Defense Secretary, which is allegedly responsible for deploying more than 11,000 soldiers in Russia to help the war.
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