The French head of state, Emmanuel Macron, has considered that this Saturday has been a “historic day” after having met the president-elect of the United States, Donald Trump, with the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, whom he has asked to continue “common action for peace and security.”
In a message on his for peace and security.”
This text is accompanied by an image of the three, who have been talking for just over half an hour, before participating in the cathedral reopening ceremony Our Ladyafter five years of restoration due to the fire it suffered in April 2019.
In another previous message, Macron referred to his face-to-face interview with Trump and insisted on the “challenges” that they have to overcome together and on the “pride in the friendship” between their two countries.
The message also includes a short video of the beginning of the meeting of both leaders at the Elysée Palace, which took place a few dozen minutes before the start of the reopening ceremony of the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, which is the reason of the presence of the elected president of the United States in France.
In that video, Macron said he was “happy to welcome the president-elect, Donald Trump, to Paris for the reopening of Notre Dame five years later. He was president when the cathedral burned.”
“It is a great honor for the French”he added, before noting the “solidarity” that Trump had expressed for the Notre Dame fire.
Trump, for his part, has highlighted the “very good relationship” he has had with the French president and explained how Americans love and respect the French.
“Very honored to be here,” he said. has told Macron Trump, who has also expressed his willingness to work with him and has noted that “the world seems to be going crazy.
Zelensky defends before Trump that it is possible to achieve “peace by force in Ukraine”
For his part, the president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, has defended the possibility of achieving “peace by force” in the war with Russia before the president-elect of the United States and a great skeptic of military support for kyiv, Donald Trump, during the trilateral summit organized this Saturday by the president of France, Emmanuel Macron, before the inauguration of the restored Notre Dame cathedral in Paris.
The meeting began at 5:30 p.m. and lasted for half an hour. Trump and Macron started first a bilateral meeting around 5:00 p.m. hours, which was joined shortly afterwards by the Ukrainian president, who will also attend the inauguration of the cathedral.
“Proud of the friendship between the United States of America and France. We have many challenges to face together,” Macron declared after receiving the president-elect of the United States.
