Emmanuel Macron pleads so that the meeting between Volodymyr Zelensky and Vladimir Putin stands in Geneva
The meeting announced between Volodymyr Zelensky and Vladimir Putin is expected to take place in Europe, said President Emmanuel Macron. “” More than a hypothesis, it is even the collective will ”said the head of state in an interview broadcast on Tuesday morning on LCI. “It will be a neutral country, and therefore perhaps Switzerland, I plead for Geneva, or another country. The last time there have been bilateral discussions was in Istanbul ”he recalled.
On the security of Ukraine, Mr. Macron announced the organization, with the United Kingdom, of a meeting this Tuesday at noon of the “coalition of volunteers”, “The 30 countries working on security guarantees, to keep them informed of what has been decided”. “In the process, we start concrete work with the Americans and therefore, as of tomorrow, our diplomatic advisers, ministers, chiefs of staff are launching the work to see who is ready for what. »»
On territorial concessions, “It is up to Ukraine to do them (…). Ukraine will make the concessions that it considers just and good ”he said. “In any case, let’s be very careful when talking about a law recognition. Let us not take recognitions of law, that is to say that countries guarantor of international order can say “we can take territories by force” because we open a box of Pandora “he warned.
Beyond Ukraine, Russia has become “ sustainably a power of destabilization and a potential threat for many of us ”, argued the president, calling for not being “Naive” Faced with Vladimir Putin, whom he describes as “Predator, [d’] ogre to us ”. “President Putin has rarely kept his commitments”, he insisted, warning against a “Threat to Europeans”.