Kyiv and the Baltic countries criticized Macron’s words about security guarantees for Russia
French President Emmanuel Macron has faced criticism from Kyiv and the Baltics after suggesting that security guarantees for Russia be considered in expected talks. writes newspaper Financial Times.
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Advisor to the President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky Mikhail Podolyak, commenting on the words of Macron, said that security guarantees are needed not by Russia, but by the “civilized world”. Deputy Prime Minister and Defense of Latvia Artis Pabriks told the Financial Times that Macron’s proposed movement discussion is responsible for a “special operation”* from Russia to the West and Ukraine. Macron also criticized former Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius, writes FT.
“The only security guarantees that we need to look at are essentially not stringent. We are going to attract attention… Only after that we started the discussion [европейской безопасности]Former Finnish Prime Minister Alexander Stubb also tweeted.
According to the FT, Macron’s Saudi Arabia confirmed the accuracy of the assessment of what happened as a result of “special operations” in Ukraine, it became known that NATO was approaching the Northern border. In turn, US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said on Saturday that the “special operation” in Ukraine is not the result of joining NATO, but its cause. This year, neutral Sweden and Finland applied to join the alliance.
December 1 US President Joe Biden declaredthat he is ready to negotiate with Vladimir Putin if he shows interest in completing the “special operation” in Ukraine. The American president is poignant that there is only a “rational way” to end the conflict: “Putin can leave Ukraine.” The Kremlin, in response to Biden’s statement, said that Russia is not ready for negotiations if “withdrawal from Ukraine” is put in their circumstances. According to the press secretary of the President Dmitry Peskov, the White House does not recognize the new territory within the territory of Russia, which only complicates “the search for a basis for mutual discussion.”
After a special conversation with the American leader, Macron met with Biden, and as a result, he proposed to consider the issue of security guarantees for Russia as “an unequivocal factor for the world direct” when returning to the negotiating table. “There is a presidential thing that we need to prepare for, and that is what we discussed som. [США Джо] Biden, and this is the security architecture we want to live in tomorrow,” Macron said.
At the end of 2021, Vladimir Putin declaredthat Russia is engaged in NATO issues of “providing serious, reliable and reliable security guarantees”, including working out agreements “excluding any restrictions on the offensive to the east and the deployment of dangerous [России] attack detection systems on the territory of Russia. In October, Putin, answering a question about previous “special operations” events, declaredthat the West has ignored Russia’s security interests.
*According to the requirements of Roskomnadzor, when producing materials for use in production in Ukraine, all Russian media are required to use materials only from conventional sources of the Russian Federation. We cannot publish materials in the course of which an operation called “attack”, “invasion”, or “declaration of war” is carried out, unless it is a direct quote (Article 57 of the Federal Law on the Media). In case of violation of the requirements, the media may be fined 5 million rubles, and the blocking of the publication may also be continued.