Trump and Macron speak prior to the meeting of European leaders

The White House reported that the executive chiefs of both the United States and France, Donald Trump and Emmanuel Macron, said, today, a phone call prior to the meeting between European leaders to Prepare the strategy on Ukraine.

With a duration of “approximately 30 minutes,” according to the United States presidential office, the leaders “They had a friendly telephone conversation” Where they talked about the War of Ukraine, the meeting of European leaders in Paris and the next meeting in Saudi Arabia among the United States Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, and Russian Foreign Minister Serguéi Lavrov.

The Elysee had reported before the call, although did not disclose details of that conversation Beyond that it lasted about 20 minutes.

Macron gathered on Monday in Paris to the main leaders of the EU, NATO and the United Kingdom To design the European strategy to the conversations promoted by the United States to end the Ukraine War, started three years ago with the Russian invasion of that country.

The Trump administration made it clear during the Munich Security Conference that Europe will not take place at the negotiating table between Ukraine and Russia, what has bothered in European capitals.

The French president’s initiative was held one day before two delegations from the United States and Russia, led by Rubio and Lavrov, officially start the negotiations.

Trump, who promised to campaign to the war in Ukraine, called last week to his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, and then to the Ukrainian, Volodimir Zelenski, to address the end of the war.

The United States plan provides that Ukraine desist from entering NATO and accept the annexation to Russia of a part of the occupied territories.

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