Americans, Europeans and Ukrainians met Thursday in Paris to discuss the future of Ukraine, when the cease-fire negotiations initiated by Washington trampled.
“The exchanges will continue next week in London,” said the President of the French Republic Emmanuel Macron.
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“The novelty (…) is that today in Paris, the United States, Ukraine and Europeans have gathered around the same table” To evoke the tracks towards “A fair and lasting peace”rejoiced the chief of French diplomacy Jean-Noël Barrot during a brief speech at the end of a meeting bringing together American, European and Ukrainian. Emmanuel Macron also welcomed himself for having succeeded in bringing together in the French capital these diplomats and heads of governments to discuss the future of Ukraine, when negotiations of ceasefire are at staller.
The United States “have understood that a fair and lasting peace, a lasting peace, can only be affected with the consent and the contribution of Europeans”insisted the minister later interviewed on LCI. Any dialogue with Moscow will be subject to the fact that it accepts a “Und condition and immediate ceasefire”.
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For his part, the head of American diplomacy Marco Rubio, present in Paris, called his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov to inform him of the intense exchanges of the day, before even speaking publicly. He transmitted the “Same message” in Moscow only to Europeans and Ukrainians, 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”.
On the ground, ten people were killed by Russian strikes in Ukraine on Thursday.
