Emmanuel Macron met on Tuesday, December 22 with his Russian counterparts Vladimir Poutin and Ukrainian Volodymyr Zelensky about the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, a year after the summit which brought them together in Paris to find a solution to the conflict, said the Elysee.
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The Head of State, who has placed himself in solitary confinement at the official residence of La Lanterne in Versailles, spoke with Putin, then with Zelensky, "
the next stages of discussion
" planned in particular within the framework of the format "
of Normandy
”, which brings together Moscow, Kiev, Paris and Berlin.
A little over a year ago, on December 9, 2019, the three presidents and Chancellor Angela Merkel met in Paris, the first meeting between the Russian and the Ukrainian, to relaunch the peace process in Ukraine. .
They had then recorded their disagreements, while affirming their will to overcome them.
This conflict has left more than 13,000 dead and nearly 1.5 million displaced.
The intensity of the fighting declined significantly after peace accords reached in 2015, but the political process has not progressed much since.
The Kremlin said in a statement that the interview had focused on the situation in Donbass, but also in Nagorno Karabakh, as well as on the agreement on the Iranian nuclear program, Syria, Libya.
But he did not report a discussion of the Alexey Navalny case, as Russia announced sanctions against European officials on Tuesday in retaliation for measures adopted in October by the EU after the alleged poisoning of the principal. Russian opponent.
With Zelensky, Macron also discussed, according to the Élysée, a "
possible coordination on access to the vaccine as part of the ACT-A initiative
", a device of the World Health Organization to ensure that rich countries will not monopolize treatments, tests or vaccines.
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