The French President obtained from Vladimir Putin, Monday, February 7, after five hours of maintenance at the Kremlin, the promise to be ready for “compromises”.
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Attempt to switch “a new process” rather than tapped on “divergences” and “misunderstandings” behind the deep crisis between Moscow and the Westerners. This is the closeway chosen by Emmanuel Macron, Monday, February 7, which is less based on truly new proposals than on the French president’s belief in the strength of his voluntarism. This path has been cleared during a long interview with Vladimir Putin – more than five hours in Kremlin – that Mr. Macron sees as the starting point for a sequence to last several weeks.
The task will be difficult, and the first words of Vladimir Putin at the press conference recalled. Russian President, who had hosted his host with a certain heat, has again unfolded the many objects of Rancère Russian, starting with the latest: the refusal of NATO and the United States to access ” Security proposals “presented by Moscow. “It’s been thirty years since our concerns are neglected,” Putin said, who was also caught in the “Russophobia” of the Baltic States, the betrayal of the “Maïdan coup”, in Ukraine, or Still in the interventions of the Alliance in Afghanistan, Libya or Iraq. He has welcomed the visit of Emmanuel Macron, believing that “some of his ideas can serve as a basis for common progress”, and promised, later, be ready for “compromises”.
m. Macron has not spared his efforts to present a balance position able to reassure the Russian side. Saying firm on the main principles governing the European continent – to start with the sovereignty of the states – and recalling the aggression of Moscow against his neighbors, he showed his understanding for Russian concerns: “there is no security for Europeans if there is no security for Russia, “he said.
For the rest, Emmanuel Macron presented a method, a three-step action plan that gives priority to emergency and “de-escalation”. The French President intends to obtain signals, same modest on the part of Vladimir Putin, on the “military posture” of his country. The Elysee considers that the situation is not only tense at the border of Ukraine, where 125,000 Russian soldiers would be massaged, according to its estimate, but also on other land. Especially in Belarus, where the Russians will begin next week of extensive exercises with the Alexander Loukachenko army and where Westerners are afraid to see Russia settle down lasting.
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