In an interview with France 2, the Head of State has confirmed the support for kyiv of France, who will “deliver radars, systems and missiles” to the Ukrainian army.
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While a number of non-aligned countries, tired by fighting, advocate a ceasefire and negotiation, Emmanuel Macron sought, Wednesday, October 12 on France 2, to confirm the support of France at the Ukraine, without closing the door to a possible dialogue with Moscow when kyiv will consider it possible. “At one point it will be the interest of Ukraine and Russia to negotiate,” said the Head of State. It is not up to us to decide for Ukraine, we would not have it not accepted from our allies. “
This suggestion then arises Russian President Vladimir Putin, was to meet his Turkish counterpart in Kazakhstan on Thursday, Recep Tayyip Erdogan. “The Turks offer their mediation. If contacts should take place, they would be made on the territory” Turkish, said in prelude the diplomatic advisor of the Kremlin, Iouri Ouchakov, specifying to expect an “interesting and useful discussion”.
To date, Emmanuel Macron is not in a position to play the mediators, if only because France, without being at war with Russia, supports Ukraine. Russian President Vladimir Putin “must stop this war, respect the territorial integrity of Ukraine and return around the discussion table,” repeated Mr. Macron. However, he defended on France 2 his constant concern to speak when necessary to the chief of the Kremlin, in particular on subjects such as the fate of the nuclear power plant of Zaporijia, occupied and annexed by the Russians, and whose Ukrainians hope to regain control.
Putin remains an interlocutor
For him, the Russian president remains an interlocutor, in order to try to “build” or “bring back peace”, while part of the leaders of the east of the continent consider him rather as a criminal of war, which must be translated into justice. As for Volodymyr Zelensky, he now refuses to imagine the slightest contact with his Russian counterpart, since the annexation by Moscow, at the end of September, of the occupied territories of Donbass, Kherson and Zaporijia.
Emmanuel Macron also does not want to speak of “terrorist state” about Russia, just as he did not want to speak of “genocide” when the American president, Joe Biden, had resumed this term in the spring After the discovery of the atrocities committed against civilians in the suburbs of kyiv, abandoned by Russian troops.
On the other hand, Mr. Macron clearly designates Russia as the aggressor, and warns the Belarusian dictator Alexandre Loukachenko against a possible direct participation of his army in the conflict. If he seeks to avoid climbing, the Head of State also recalls that France is “endowed” with nuclear weapons. Way of responding to threats of nuclear confrontation hammered by the Kremlin in recent weeks, on the sidelines of the partial mobilization decreed in order to stop the Ukrainian counter-offensive.
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