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Macron at Vatican: US Needs to Sit Down at Negotiating Table to Push Forward Ukraine Peace Process
Macron at Vatican: US Needs to Sit Down at Negotiating Table to Push Forward Ukraine Peace Process
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The French president traveled to Vatican City on Monday to meet Pope Francis, with the ongoing security crisis in Ukraine the focal point of discussions... 25.10.2022, Sputnik International
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French President Emmanuel Macron has urged Washington to start negotiations to stop the Ukrainian crisis.Pointing to the relationship of trust between Pope Francis and Biden, who is a Catholic, Macron suggested that Pope Francis "can influence him so that the United States resumes its involvement in resolving the crises in Haiti and Ukraine."The Vatican said the Pope's conversation with the French president on Monday last 55 minutes, and, per established protocol, did not elaborate on the specifics of what the two men discussed, apart from the general theme. "During the cordial discussions, which took place in the Secretariat of State, the parties focused on matters of an international nature, starting with the conflict in Ukraine, with special attention to the humanitarian situation," the Vatican said in a statement.Commenting on Macron's appeal on Tuesday, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Russia is ready to talk to the US, other countries and the pope to find solutions to the Ukrainian crisis. Regarding the French president's appeal to get Pope Francis to talk to Putin, Peskov lamented that no one is appealing to Kiev, which has openly rejected any negotiations.Pope Francis appealed to Putin earlier this month to "stop this spiral of violence of death" in Ukraine, and called on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to "be open" to serious peace proposals. Commenting on the escalating rhetoric among Western officials and media about the dangers of a nuclear war over Ukraine, the pope emphasized that "that humanity again finds itself before the threat of atomic war is absurd."Throughout the Ukrainian crisis, Francis has criticized both sides in the conflict, and repeatedly accused NATO of "provoking" Moscow by "barking at the gates of Russia" by advancing toward its borders over the past two-and-a-half decades despite promises not to do so.Macron has issued a series of mixed messages in recent days relating to the Ukraine crisis and regarding Paris's relationship with the United States.Speaking in Rome on Sunday, the French president said it would be up to Ukraine, not Russia, to determine the terms of peace, and that he would not accept staying "neutral" and "accepting the world order of the strongest."Last Friday, Macron blasted the United States for selling its gas to European countries at prices several times higher than those on the domestic US market. "Their costs of energy are so much lower as they are producers. They sell their gas for 3-4 times less than we have to pay, and they have also great subsidies from the state in some areas, up to 90 percent. That is unfair. These are double standards," Macron complained.Russian President Vladimir Putin warned the Europeans precisely of this issue in September, saying that Moscow would be prepared to resume deliveries through Nord Stream "tomorrow.""But we aren't the ones who placed sanctions on Nord Stream 2. [Europe] did so under US pressure. And why are the Americans pressuring the Europeans? Because they themselves want to sell them gas for three times the price," Putin said. Two weeks after Putin made the remarks, three of Nord Stream's four gas lines were struck in a large-scale sabotage attack which the Russian Prosecutor General's Office classified as an "unprecedented act of international terrorism."Russia and Ukraine held several rounds of peace talks aimed at ending the security crisis in February and March, with Moscow's demands including legal guarantees that Ukraine will never be allowed into NATO, recognition of Crimea as part of Russia, and recognition of the independence of the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics. Western and Ukrainian media later revealed that Moscow and Kiev appeared to be on the brink of a peace deal in the spring, and that now ex-British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was dispatched to Kiev to scuttle the potential agreement. In the months since then, the crisis has seen a dramatic escalation, with NATO pumping tens of billions of dollars' worth of weaponry into Ukraine, and Moscow holding status referendums in Donetsk, Lugansk, Kherson and Zaporozhye, incorporating the territories into Russia, kicking off partial mobilization and launching missile and drone strikes on Ukrainian military and power infrastructure after a terror attack on the Crimean Bridge.
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Macron at Vatican: US Needs to Sit Down at Negotiating Table to Push Forward Ukraine Peace Process
09:18 GMT 25.10.2022 (Updated: 10:35 GMT 25.10.2022) The French president traveled to Vatican City on Monday to meet Pope Francis, with the ongoing security crisis in Ukraine the focal point of discussions. According to French media, the president asked the pope to personally reach out to Vladimir Putin and Joe Biden to help resolve the conflict.
French President Emmanuel Macron has urged Washington to start negotiations to stop the Ukrainian crisis.
"We need the United States to sit down at the negotiating table to advance the peace process in Ukraine," Macron
said, speaking to reporters after his visit to the Vatican.
Pointing to the relationship of trust between Pope Francis and Biden, who is a Catholic, Macron suggested that Pope Francis "can influence him so that the United States resumes its involvement in resolving the crises in Haiti and Ukraine."
The president also called on the pope to call President Putin and Russian Orthodox Church patriarch Kirill, as well as Biden, "to help bring peace to Ukraine."
20 October 2022, 08:19 GMT
The Vatican said the Pope's conversation with the French president on Monday last 55 minutes, and, per established protocol, did not elaborate on the specifics of what the two men discussed, apart from the general theme. "During the cordial discussions, which took place in the Secretariat of State, the parties focused on matters of an international nature, starting with the conflict in Ukraine, with special attention to the humanitarian situation," the Vatican said in a statement.
Commenting on Macron's appeal on Tuesday, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Russia is ready to talk to the US, other countries and the pope to find solutions to the Ukrainian crisis. Regarding the French president's appeal to get Pope Francis to talk to Putin, Peskov lamented that no one is appealing to Kiev, which has openly rejected any negotiations.
Pope Francis appealed to Putin earlier this month to "stop this spiral of violence of death" in Ukraine, and called on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to "be open" to serious peace proposals. Commenting on the escalating rhetoric among Western officials and media about the dangers of a nuclear war over Ukraine, the pope emphasized that "that humanity again finds itself before the threat of atomic war is absurd."
Throughout the Ukrainian crisis, Francis has criticized both sides in the conflict, and repeatedly accused NATO of "provoking" Moscow by "barking at the gates of Russia" by advancing toward its borders over the past two-and-a-half decades despite promises not to do so.
22 October 2022, 17:07 GMT
Macron has issued a series of mixed messages in recent days relating to the Ukraine crisis and regarding Paris's relationship with the United States.
Speaking in Rome on Sunday, the French president said it would be up to Ukraine, not Russia, to determine the terms of peace, and that he would not accept staying "neutral" and "accepting the world order of the strongest."
Last Friday, Macron blasted the United States for selling its gas to European countries at prices several times higher than those on the domestic US market. "Their costs of energy are so much lower as they are producers. They sell their gas for 3-4 times less than we have to pay, and they have also great subsidies from the state in some areas, up to 90 percent. That is unfair. These are double standards," Macron complained.
Russian President Vladimir Putin warned the Europeans precisely of this issue in September, saying that Moscow would be prepared to resume deliveries through Nord Stream "tomorrow."
"But we aren't the ones who placed sanctions on Nord Stream 2. [Europe] did so under US pressure. And why are the Americans pressuring the Europeans? Because they themselves want to sell them gas for three times the price," Putin
said. Two weeks after Putin made the remarks, three of Nord Stream's four gas lines were struck in a large-scale
sabotage attack which the Russian Prosecutor General's Office classified as an "unprecedented act of international terrorism."
Russia and Ukraine held several rounds of peace talks aimed at ending the security crisis in February and March, with Moscow's demands including legal guarantees that Ukraine will never be allowed into NATO, recognition of Crimea as part of Russia, and recognition of the independence of the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics. Western and Ukrainian media later revealed that Moscow and Kiev appeared to be on the brink of a peace deal in the spring, and that now ex-British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was dispatched to Kiev
to scuttle the potential agreement. In the months since then, the crisis has seen a dramatic escalation, with NATO pumping tens of billions of dollars' worth of weaponry into Ukraine, and Moscow holding status referendums in Donetsk, Lugansk, Kherson and Zaporozhye, incorporating the territories into Russia, kicking off partial mobilization and launching missile and drone strikes on Ukrainian military and power infrastructure after a terror attack on the Crimean Bridge.
