At the end of several meetings in Paris, France salutes an “excellent exchange” which “made it possible to converge” in favor of a “solid peace”

Discussions took place on Thursday between Americans, Ukrainians, French, British and Germans, in order to discuss a cease-fire between kyiv and Moscow.

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France praised a “Excellent exchange” On the war in Ukraine, Thursday, April 17, in Paris, in a format “Unpublished” bringing together Americans, Ukrainians, French, British and Germans. These discussions have “License to converge” on the objective of a “Solid peace” Between kyiv and Moscow.

“Today we have triggered a process that is positive in Paris today and with which Europeans are associated”welcomed the French presidency at the end of a series of meetings, particularly around Emmanuel Macron, the head of American diplomacy, Marco Rubio, and Steve Witkoff, the special envoy of Donald Trump. Europeans have been feared for weeks to be sidelined in negotiations between the United States and Russia.

According to an advisor to Emmanuel Macron, Ukrainian and European officials underlined their “common support” has “President Trump’s objective quickly ended the war in Ukraine” and at “The need for a complete ceasefire as quickly as possible”. This should “Base on the contact line [ligne de front] as it is “taking into account Ukrainian territories “occupied by Russia”estimated the Elysée. “Americans are ready to discuss the issue of security guarantees”completed the French presidency, ensuring that Washington “Appreciate” Franco-British work in this sense.

“We demonstrate a European commitment and the desire to work closely with the United States”wrote Emmanuel Macron on X. “Today we have initiated a positive and constructive discussion on how to reach both a ceasefire and a complete and lasting peace”he added, specifying having “Maintained upstream and at the end of meetings” avec Volodymyr Zelensky “pour [se] coordinate”.

At the end of these meetings, Marco Rubio called his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov to transmit to him “the same message as the American team communicated to the Ukrainian delegation and our European allies in Paris: President Trump and the United States want this war to end and have now presented to all parties the main lines of lasting peace”, according to a statement from the State Department. “The encouraging reception reserved for Paris to the American framework shows that peace is possible if all the parties undertake to achieve an agreement,” said the press release. A new meeting of emissaries in these five countries is scheduled for next week in London.