The US president, Donald Trump, announced Monday during the meeting with his French homologous, Emmanuel Macron, who this week or the one who comes plans to receive in Washington the Ukrainian leader, Volodimir Zelenski, to close the pact on the pact on the assignment of rare earths and natural resources in exchange for the help of the United States.
“I will meet with President Zelenski. In fact, he may come this week or the one that comes to sign the agreement, which would be fine. I would love to receive him. We will see each other in the Oval Office. We are working on the agreement now“He said in a brief appearance before the press before starting the meeting behind closed doors. In recent days Trump and Zelenski have launched public messages on this agreement that has not yet been specified that it would consist and if only in exchange for The military and economic aid that has been given so far to help it in the war or if there would be any counterpart in the peace negotiation that the United States is addressing alone with Russia.
On the G7 meeting in which both leaders have participated telematically, Trump has assured that “everyone expressed their goal of seeing the end of the war” and that he had “emphasized” the need for an agreement on rare earths with Ukraine to “guarantee that the American people recover the tens of billions of dollars and the military team sent to Ukraine.” In addition, he has recognized that he is in “serious conversations” with Putin and that In the future he would like to meet him in Moscow.
For his part, Macron, despite the important internal problems facing his country, is trying to maintain his position as a European leader with this trip to Washington. While its European partners have participated in the Cumbe to support Ukraine in kyiv in the third anniversary of the Russian invasion, the French president has moved to the United States to talk to Trump about the war in Ukraine, with the idea that you can Achieve a peace in Ukraine “Fair solid and lasting”. This has been recognized in the moments before the meeting, where he has shown a good harmony with the US president and said that the “common objective, is clearly to build peace” and that Europe is willing to “reinforce” its defense capacities .
Macron explained that Sunday had spoken with the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen; with the president of the European Council, António Costa; with the German chancellor, Olaf Scholz; With the prime ministers of the United Kingdom, Keir Starmer, and Hungary, Viktor Orban, and with the Turkish president, Recep Tayip Erdogan. In addition to the meetings he organized on Monday and Wednesday with more than twenty leaders. The Chief of the French State stressed in social networks that after those discussions, “they were committed to make peace return to Ukraine in a fair, solid and lasting way and that The safety of Europeans is reinforced in all future negotiations“
One of the intentions of this Macron trip was to ask Trump to press Putin to commit to negotiate a true peace and not a mere high the fire that he can later rape. Above all, in mind what happened with the 2014 Minsk protocols signed between Moscow and kyiv under the auspices of France and Germany that ended up jumping through the air shortly after.
In addition, Macron has asked that Ukraine is part of any peace negotiationsince in the first contact between Russia and the United States in Saudi Arabia on February 18 there was no Ukrainian participation. In fact, one of the criticisms that has been made to Trump has been asked for Russia to give in any of his aspirations on Ukraine, while kyiv has been openly asked to give part of his territory occupied by Russia and He has been denied his entry into NATO. In addition, the American leader has raised his tone with Ukraine and his president, to which he qualified as “dictator.”
In this sense, France has also insisted that Europeans be at the table because, according to elíseo, It is Europe that will have to offer peace guarantees to Ukraine in the future. On Trump’s proposal that European countries have troops in Ukraine as part of the peace agreement (and that it has already been accepted by the United Kingdom and France), the president of the United States has affirmed on Monday that his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin I would accept it despite the fact that until now it was a red line for Moscow.
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