But he does not refuse to communicate with Putin.
French President Emmanuel Macron promised on Thursday, September 1 continue France's humanitarian, economic and military support to Ukraine and strengthen European unity to put pressure on Russia and prevent it from winning a war in this country, reports AP NEWS.
“We cannot allow Russia to win a war by military means,” Macron said, speaking to French ambassadors at the Elysee Palace.
He set the goal of helping Ukraine either win a military victory or be in a strong position to achieve “peace through negotiations.”
“We have to be ready for a long war,” Macron said, adding that it would be linked to an escalation of tensions over Ukraine's nuclear power plants.
Macron said France was determined supports the mission of the International Atomic Energy Agency, which arrived on Thursday at the Zaporizhia NPP to assess its safety. The French president suggested that he will call his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin after the IAEA mission is over.
Macron has vowed to “continue the conversation” with Russia, despite criticism from some countries, particularly in Eastern Europe, that have taken a hard line towards Moscow. “We must do everything to make a negotiated world possible” when Russia and Ukraine are ready to sit down at the negotiating table, he said.
“We must not allow Europe to be divided” by the war in Ukraine and its consequences. , Macron said, adding that the EU should not join the “pallias of war” or allow Eastern European countries to act alone in support of Kyiv.
In a nearly two-hour speech designed to outline French diplomatic goals for the coming year, Macron praised the views expressed by German Chancellor Olaf Scholz earlier this week in Prague as “completely in line” with his own call for a stronger, independent and more sovereign Europe.
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Macron called on Europe to “defend” its freedoms and values and “fight” for them. He also called on French diplomats to do more to counter disinformation, fake news and propaganda spread on social media.
Paris needs to use some means of communication to “break the Russian, Chinese or Turkish story” and be able to “say, when France is attacked unjustly, to say that France has really done it,” he said.
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