Macron believes that we will have to “rethink our relationship with Russia” after the war

President Emmanuel Macron said it would be necessary “rethinking our relationship with Russia” after the war in Ukraine, and advocated for “a new international order”Sunday in Paris during the “Meeting for Peace” organized by Sant’Egidio.

On the subject of relations with Moscow, Emmanuel Macron had been heavily criticized for having declared in May 2022, more than two months after Moscow had launched its troops against Ukraine, that it was not necessary “humiliate” Russia. On the contrary, he attracted Western criticism two years later for refusing to rule out sending troops onto Ukrainian soil. “We must be imaginative enough to think about the peace of tomorrow, a peace in Europe in a new form,” he said during these meetings bringing together religious, political and expert people. It will be necessary to take into account “reconciliation with the Balkans and the reality of a Europe in its geographical form, which is neither quite the European Union, nor resolutely NATO”he added.

“Building a new international order”

He called for “building a new international order” because “Our order today is incomplete and unjust” because “many of the most populous countries did not exist when the seats were distributed”. It’s necessary “an order where one or the other cannot block others and where countries are worthily represented, and therefore do so with much fairer bodies, whether it be the United Nations, the World Bank or the International Monetary Fund”.

“I will come back to this this week at the UN”said the French president, who will be at the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday and Wednesday. “Peace is only possible in coexistence” And “There will be one place, one land, one state, one coexistence, recognition of the existence of each, recognition of the right of each to live in peace”he further stated, noting that “For what is happening today in the Middle East, this is the key”.