The rebellious presidential candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon called this Sunday on TF1 for
the "de-escalation
" of tensions in Ukraine, believing that France should be "
non-aligned
" and reproaching Emmanuel Macron for having a time "
raising the your
” in this folder.
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While Emmanuel Macron goes to Russia on Monday and Ukraine on Tuesday to meet his counterparts Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelensky, and try to prevent an armed conflict, Jean-Luc Mélenchon defended himself from defending the Russian position.
"
France must be non-aligned, which means that neither the Russians must enter Ukraine, nor the Americans must annex Ukraine into NATO
," he said.
According to him, Vladimir Putin's position is understandable.
“
I don't know how we French would react if we learned that Recep Erdogan (the Turkish president, editor's note) had created an alliance that would encircle France.
It would not make us happy, so I think the key word must be de
-escalation, ”he continued.
He said he criticized "
President Macron for having raised his voice at one point by saying 'France will defend the integrity of Ukrainian territory'
".
NATO, "
relay of the United States
"
“
It seems completely excessive to me.
If you want to play a role, you have to be non-aligned.
If we choose to be aligned, we no longer play a role, we are in one of the camps.
And France's interest is not to turn Russia into an adversary
,” he added.
In January, he pleaded for dialogue with Russia, which he considers an essential partner for Europe.
"
I don't agree with making an enemy of
it," he said in a tweet in early January.
He added that the enlargement of NATO to the countries of the East in the 2000s had been "
felt as a threat by Russia
" and advocated an exit from NATO, which he considers to be the relay of the United States. against Russia.