Returning from Jordan, the head of state claims “an absolute defense strategy of Ukraine” while projecting the conditions of negotiation of the end of the conflict.
by Philippe Ricard
“It’s a good thing”: Emmanuel Macron remained rather laconic about the visit of the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky in Washington, Wednesday, December 21. The Head of State was questioned on his return from Jordan, where he met King Abdallah II in the morning, the day after a conference on the stabilization of Iraq, held in the shadow of the war in Ukraine .
“The United States do a lot of military and financial level,” he said, aboard his plane, the world, the Wall Street Journal and the Lebanese daily An Nahar, without appearing that Ukrainian leader reserved for Joe Biden his first outing out of Ukraine since the start of the Russian invasion, ten months ago. “Europe is also doing a lot and we are in close coordination,” he said, however. For him, while the mid-term elections have changed the balance of power, “it is a good thing” also that Mr. Zelensky is expressed in Congress, in particular to present “the plan in ten points that he had the audacity and the courage to put on the table to engage the work on the release of this war “.
If he is the most insistent among Western leaders to ask to get out of the conflict by negotiation, when the Ukrainians judge the time coming according to the balance of power on the ground, the Head of State seems to have in Head that the hour of diplomacy has not yet struck: “Those who thought that the Russians were ready for the ceasefire and to peace could see that they were not. What the Russians Asked from the start, it’s surrender, not peace, “he says.
” Priority today is to defend Ukraine “
Emmanuel Macron seeks to specify the order of priorities, as if to avoid any misunderstanding on his intentions: “We are on an absolute defense strategy of Ukraine, of victory of Ukraine, which will be built at the end By a new text which must build a new order ensuring the political and security stability of this region and Europe, “says the head of state, in order to appease the outcry aroused by his words, in early December, about “Security guarantees” that Russia should be offered, as part of a negotiated solution. These guarantees for the Russians? “It is not the priority; this is one of the things that will come to the long term. Priority today is to defend Ukraine, what we have done, we, since the first day,” says Emmanuel Macron.
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