This Monday the President of France, Emmanuel Macron, indicated that, without expecting “miracles”, he is optimistic about the meeting he is holding in Moscow with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, to try to reduce the tension between that country and Ukraine.
“I don’t think there are short-term victories. Short-term things can be avoided. And we must try to resume dialogue. (…) I don’t believe in spontaneous miracles,” he told reporters on the presidential plane that took him to the Russian capital.
The French authorities believe that this bilateral meeting could be a good starting point to prevent the deterioration of the current situation, after the deployment of more than 100,000 Russian soldiers along the Ukrainian border.
After the meeting in the Kremlin, both leaders plan to appear before the press after their talk, according to Elílsée sources.
The head of the Kremlin and the French president have spoken on the phone three times in the last two weeks, both about the situation around Ukraine and about the security guarantees that Russia demands from the United States and NATO, among which are the Alliance’s renunciation of its open-door policy.
Macron said he advocated creating the conditions of transparency and mutual commitments that would allow the de-escalation of tension and the avoidance of a war in Ukraine.
This Sunday, in an interview in the weekly Le Journal du Dimanche, the French head of state considered that both he and the US president, Joe Biden, share the same position: “I think he agrees in saying that the solution goes through the de-escalation”, he concluded. (I)
Source: Eluniverso
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