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In Lithuania, Emmanuel Macron maintains his call to work with Moscow

2020-09-29T18:02:57.049Z


The French president urged his counterpart in Vilnius to “dispassionate” issues related to the neighborhood.


Special envoy to Vilnius

Emmanuel Macron understands

"the aspiration for freedom, peace and security"

of the Baltic Republics after forty-five years under the Soviet yoke.

"Your country,

he summed up Monday evening during his press conference with President Gitanas Nauseda

, did not have the same twentieth century as mine"

and

"the post-World War II lasted well there. long time."

However, on the first evening of his visit to Lithuania and Latvia, the French president reaffirmed his wish to

“work with Russia”

.

A year ago, the three Baltic republics gave an icy reception to his plan to establish a

"strategic dialogue"

with the Kremlin.

But the French president, who came to report to his hosts on this so far unsuccessful approach, does not intend to give it up.

"The other, he

told them,

can always improve."

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This visit, the first by a French president since that of Jacques Chirac in 2001, takes place in an atmosphere un

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Source: lefigaro

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