News is being organized today, Wednesday (19/2) in the war for the war in, as the French president said Tuesday.
French diplomatic sources say that among the guests are the heads of state and governments of Greece, Finland, Romania, Sweden, Belgium, the Czech Republic, the three Baltic countries, as well as Norway and Canada. According to the same sources, some countries will participate in the meeting through video link. By the end of the week, President Macron will have discussed with all its heads and governments.
Reportedly, Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis will participate via teleconference.
Mitsotakis: Europe must speak with one voice
The need for Europe to emit the message that it is taking its defense seriously was highlighted by the prime minister at his extraordinary teleconference conference conference on developments in Ukraine.
Kyriakos Mitsotakis welcomed the proposal by the President of the European Commission to activate the escape clause for investment in defense and reiterated the need for European funding for defense and beyond national budgets.
He pointed out that Europe must speak with a voice, a goal that is not served by selective leader debate schemes.
‘Useful’ Tremp – Putin negotiations
Referring to developments for Ukraine, Emmanuel Macron noted, in his interview that the US president’s negotiations with the Russian president may prove “useful”.
“He re -creates strategic ambiguity for President Putin” using “very steady words” and “uncertainty” could “help to exert pressure,” said Emmanuel Macron, who left open the possibility of talking to the president himself. of Russia. He emphasized, however, that in order to achieve a constant peace, the Ukrainians in the negotiations are necessary.
Goal not just a ceasefire of fire but ‘complete peace’
Emmanuel Macron also said that France does not intend to send land troops to a war zone, pointing out that everyone’s goal is not a mere ceasefire in Ukraine, but “complete peace, with security, social, economic conditions” as well as “political stability ” In this case, and in the context of a possible peace agreement with Moscow, France and Britain could consider the possibility of sending some forces, in the form of guarantees to Kiev, he said, noting that another solution would be Ukraine’s accession to NATO.
He also referred to the opportunity to “decide in the framework of the United Nations’s negotiations, under the order of the United Nations, a peacekeeping” along the “first line”. Emmanuel Macron, however, made it clear that the US should be behind any security guarantees to Ukraine, given that Russia is the country with the largest nuclear arsenal in the world.
Putin’s Russia “Threat to Europe”
The French president described President Putin as a “existential threat” for Europe, taking into account its border activities with Poland, cyberattacks against EU states, misinformation campaigns, In the case of Romania etc.
Paris announced yesterday that French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Baro participated, together with his German counterparts, Italy and Britain, at a teleconference with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
No decision without Europeans
French diplomatic sources say that following the Paris summit yesterday, the European side now has common positions and, above all, that no solution for Ukraine can be agreed without Ukraine, no decision on Europe’s security can be adopted. Without Europeans and that the alliance should be preserved within the US NATO with Europe.
European countries that met in Paris on Monday on Ukraine unanimously expressed the need for a “viable peace agreement based on security guarantees” for Kiev and their “intention” to “increase their investment” in defense, according to defense, according to A summary that came to the knowledge of the French Agency from parliamentary sources.
Emmanuel Macron convened on Monday ten leaders of European countries, the European Union and NATO. The aim, as it was said, “to present a spirit of responsibility and our ability to act, to support Ukraine and to enhance European security.”
This module message may not be clear because of the contradictions of the possible development of European troops in the future in Ukraine. British Prime Minister Kir Starmer said he was ready for it “if a sustainable peace deal” is reached, German Chancellor Olf Saltz described the issue as “premature” and Italian Prime Minister Georgia Meloni described this choice as ” Effective. “
However, participants also seem to have found agreement with the will of US President Donald Trump to quickly negotiate the end of the war in Ukraine with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin.
“Nothing for Ukraine without Ukraine”
“There has been quite a wide agreement” for the “following basic principles”: “Nothing for Ukraine without Ukraine”, “Nothing for European Security without Europeans”, “Need to Support Ukraine’s Sovereignty” and “Need to Defense of unity »of the North Atlantic Alliance between the US and Europeans. “The participants also emphasized their support for the approach of ‘peace through power’ promoted by the US,” the text said, one way to encourage Donald Trump not to relax the pressure on Vladimir Putin.
“They emphasize that a cessation of hostilities will only be viable if it is accompanied by a sustainable peace agreement, which will be based on security guarantees for Ukraine,” according to the same source. That is, there will be no truce “without simultaneous peace agreement”.
European leaders therefore said they were ready to provide these guarantees in Kiev “in relation to the level of US support”. Only in this context, that of the Sustainable Peace Agreement, “some participants expressed the willingness to investigate the possibility of immediate involvement in the field”, stressing “the importance of American support in this context”, at the same time “the importance of US support in this context” According to the document.
Increase of defensive expenditure
In addition, the meeting reached an agreement “to enhance efforts to increase” support for Ukraine, and the common intention of increasing defense budgets, “both countries and EUs in the EU”.
Source: Reuters, RES-EIA, AFP, ertnews.gr
