Started at noon, the meeting was still not over at 6:30 p.m. But according to information collected by
Le Figaro,
while the meeting continued
“intensely”,
in the words of the Elysée, it had not given much in the late afternoon.
If not, the commitment made by the participants to continue the discussions.
Despite the very big efforts made by France and Germany,
"the Russians still refused to make the slightest concession"
at the seventh hour of the talks, even if a last minute twist could not be excluded.
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