Europe is reacting to the onslaught of Donald Trump, after it excludes it from conversations with Russia about the Ukraine War. The French president, Emmanuel Macron, is the first European leader who visits Washington to meet with his American counterpart and try to convince him that the European Union must sit on the negotiating table to achieve an agreement with the Russian president, Vladimir Putin.
“I think the war could end soon. In weeks. I think we could finish it in weeks if we are ready. If we are not, continue and continue to lose young and beautiful people who should not be dying. And we don’t want that, ”Trump said Monday in the Oval Office, along with the French president, before his meeting behind closed doors.
“Our goal is to get a fire as soon as possible and, ultimately, a permanent peace,” Trump said later, adding that his meeting with Macron has been “an important step forward.” He has also claimed that he does not believe that the presence of European peace forces in Ukraine is “a problem”, “once an agreement is signed.” Asked by journalists about whether Putin would accept the sending of those blue helmets, Trump has been sharply: “Yes, he will accept it.”
For its part, Macron has assured that “Europeans are prepared to send troops to Ukraine” to ensure that “peace is respected.” The president of the French Republic has explained at the press conference with Trump that these troops would be for the maintenance of peace, not to fight, and that before sending there must be a peace agreement accepted by the two sides. “I have spoken with all our European and not European allies that are ready and willing to participate” in that peace mission, he said.
Macron has said that he spoke with Trump of “the negotiation of a lasting peace, where not only the reconstruction of Ukraine and its territories will be discussed, but also the security guarantees, that is, maintaining the peace in the long term.” However, the Frenchman stressed that any peace agreement “should not mean the surrender of Ukraine” nor can it be a “high fire without guarantees.”
“We know what work we have to do and in the coming weeks we will work so that our teams meet in several formats to ensure that we have this solid and lasting peace,” said the president, implying that France and Europe will be involved in the Negotiating process
The French president has also approached the controversy about whether the US or Europe has contributed more to Ukraine, something that Trump has complained repeatedly. “Europe is willing to step forward to be a stronger partner. We are aware that Europeans need to do more for the defense and security of Europe, and to more fairly share the security burden that the US has assumed for so many years, ”he admitted the Gallic. Trump then celebrated that “President Macron agrees that the cost and burden of ensuring peace must be assumed by Europe’s countries, not only by the United States, and Europe must assume that central role in ensuring the Long -term security of Ukraine ”.
Macron has landed this morning in the early hour in Washington and has gone to the White House to participate in a joint video calling of the G7 leaders (of which France and the US are part). With a European Union in Shock for the cooling of relations with its historic ally, Macron has arrived in the US as a European and spokesperson for 27. The French stars the first approach to Trump, before the visit that the British Prime Minister Keir Starmer. The United Kingdom, who has avoided criticizing the Republican President, also looks confined to change the course of one of his main partners across the Atlantic.
Before the meeting with Macron, Trump has said that he will meet with the Ukrainian president, Volodimir Zelenski, who could go to Washington this week or the next to sign the agreement with the US on natural resources. The Republican refers to the draft that on February 12 the US Secretary of the Treasury, Scott Besent, presented kyiv for Ukrainian and American companies to exploit critical minerals for the technological industry. This Monday, the Ukrainian government said that the agreement with kyiv is about to be completed.
With that agreement, Washington seeks to recover all the money he has offered for military, economic and humanitarian aid to kyiv. Initially, Zelenski refused for Ukraine to deliver 500,000 million dollars in mineral wealth as payment for the aid received from Washington, stating that the United States had not provided that amount and that the agreement did not offer specific security guarantees, which is what it seeks Ukraine for Russia.
“Our main objective is still to end the war. As we are doing with Ukraine, we are exploring economic opportunities that could involve Russia, obtaining the resources we need while we guarantee lasting peace, ”Trump said Monday. The American has been convinced that “once the fire is established, it will be difficult to return to war. People have suffered enough. ”
Trump has boasted of having started the negotiations, which started last week in Riyadh with a meeting between their envoys and those of Moscow: “I am happy to have been able to help. There was no communication with Russia until it intervenes. [El expresidente Joe] Biden was not talking to Putin, he was not even communicating effectively with his own team. For three years, there was no dialogue, ”he said.
Now, the Republican has reaffirmed his intention to meet with Putin, “at the time.” Asked by journalists if that meeting could take place on May 9, he said that it seems “too soon.” Macron has said that he supports the idea of ”talking with other leaders, especially when you disagree” with them.
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