Emmanuel Macron will receive US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, and Donald Trump’s special emissary, Steve Witkoff
French president, Emmanuel Macron, will receive the head of American diplomacy in Paris on Thursday in Paris, Marco Rubio, and the special emissary of the American president, Steve Witkoff, announced the Elysée on Wednesday. Donald Trump’s two diplomats are expected in the French capital, especially for discussions on the conflict in Ukraine. Mr. Witkoff has just met Russian president Vladimir Putin.
The Secretary of State will also have interviews on Thursday with his French counterpart, Jean-Noël Barrot, during which “They will approach several international crises together: war in Ukraine, situation in the Middle East, Iranian nuclear file”according to a diplomatic source. This will be the third trip to Europe of Mr. Rubio since taking office after his participation in the Safety Conference in Munich in mid-February and a NATO meeting in Brussels in March.
While Mr. Rubio will be in Paris, the Minister of the French Army, Sébastien Lecornu, will be in Washington on Thursday where he will teach himself with the Minister of American Defense, Pete Hegseth.
Negotiations on the initiative of Donald Trump for a general ceasefire between kyiv and Moscow have not yet succeeded, the Russian attack on Sunday against Soumy, in northeast Ukraine, having caused the death of at least 35 civilians, coming to recall, according to Washington and Paris, the urgency to find a way out of the conflict.
The emissary of the American president said on Monday, three days after a new meeting with the Russian head of state, Vladimir Putin, that the talks were “On the point” to allow advances. France and the United Kingdom are particularly involved in discussions with a view to providing security guarantees for Ukraine in the event of a ceasefire.
