French President Emmanuel Macron (C) has held a meeting with U.S. President-elect Donald Trump (R) and Ukrainian President after a meeting at the Elysee Presidential Palace in Paris on December 7, 2024 Wodimir Zelensky (L) walks.
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Europe is fighting for a sentence over the U.S. Russian-Ukrainian peace talks over the U.S. over the U.S., which has heightened concerns about the lack of Brussels in the highest level of negotiations.
European leaders gathered in Paris on Monday for an emergency summit, a hastily rally by French President Emmanuel Macron, after hopes of European participation turned sour at the Munich security conference.
Washington and Moscow will begin discussions to end nearly three years of Russian-Ukrainian war in Saudi Arabia this week, when U.S. President Donald Trump’s top diplomat Marco Rubio sat down with Russia’s Sergei Lavrov.
Trump said on Sunday that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy would negotiate peacefully with Russia, refuting contradictory remarks among U.S. officials in recent days. However, he did not disclose whether Zelenskyy or his team would be in Riyadh or attend preliminary meetings in future meetings.
However, the EU and the UK are It’s unlikely to have a physical seat In negotiation table – Initially or as negotiations progressed, Keith Kellogg, the special envoy for Ukraine and Russia, said on Saturday.
He said at a fringe event in Munich: “What we don’t want to do is have large-scale group discussions.
Meanwhile, Russia’s Lavrov imposed an ugly look in the chaos on Monday, saying: “I don’t know what country should be done in the negotiations in Ukraine.”
Instead, the United States requires European allies to complete a questionnaire outlining how many troops and capabilities they can deploy in Ukraine as a security guarantee, according to Reuters. Other issues include security assurance that Europe will be seen as “a sufficient deterrent to Russia, while also ensuring that the conflict ends with a lasting peaceful resolution.”
EU Foreign Policy Director Kaja Kallas said on Saturday that a lasting peace deal will impossible No European participation.
“In order to make Ukrainians and Europeans a part of it, because Ukrainians and Europeans are the people who need to implement this deal in Europe, so no deal with us will not only work,” she told her. Amaro is on the sidelines of MSC.
Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission, Friday Warning This failure to obtain “just and lasting peace” in Ukraine will “weak Europe, but also weaken the United States.”
