The French President and the German Chancellor want to maintain a communication channel with Vladimir Putin in the hope of negotiating the end of the conflict through the diplomatic channel.
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Weapon deliveries to Ukraine, NATO Role in Central Europe, Concerted Sanctions and Unity Demonstration, Joe Biden’s visit to Brussels and Warsaw had so far convinced the Europeans of the re-engagement of States -Unis against Russia. But the small sentences improvised by the American president during his passage in Poland, Saturday, March 26, put them in an embarrassment, while the war in Ukraine enters his second month.
Sunday, Emmanuel Macron warned against “the climbing of words and actions”, after his American counterpart qualified Vladimir Putin of “Boucher”. “It must first be factual and do everything to prevent the scratch situation,” said the head of state in an interview on France 3: “I will not use that kind of purpose because I continue to discuss With President Putin. “But,” we want to stop the war that Russia has launched in Ukraine, without making war and without climbing, “he continued, recalling the common position many times hammered by the European allies and American: support for Ukraine against Russia, without direct military intervention in the conflict.
For its part, the German Chancellor, Olaf Scholz, questioned the possibility of a change of regime in Moscow, suggested by Joe Biden when he considered, at the very end of his Warsaw speech, that Vladimir Putin should not “stay in power”. Remarks that the White House was striven to minimize in the day. Such a perspective “is not the objective of NATO or that of the American president, assured the German Chancellor, Sunday night, on the public chain Ard. Democracy, freedom and law have a future everywhere”, Observed the Social Democrat leader, before adding: “But it is to the peoples and the nations to fight for this freedom.” Under hearing: no question of imposing it from outside to overthrow the chief of the Kremlin , despite its responsibility in this war.
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The double replica of French and German leaders is all the more lively as both sought, since the triggering of the Russian invasion, on February 24, to maintain open a communication channel with the Kremlin. Unlike Joe Biden, neither has ever processed publicly the Russian president of “war criminal”.
Emmanuel Macron should also talk again, Monday or Tuesday, with Vladimir Putin. It will be their ninth conversation, including two with Mr. Scholz, since the beginning of hostilities. The Head of State, who speaks at least every two days with his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelensky, thus seeks to prepare the ground of an exit of the diplomatic crisis, in order to “first obtain the cease-le- Fire then the total withdrawal of troops “.
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