French President Emmanuel Macron believes that Ukraine's entry into NATO would be experienced by Russia as a confrontation and that it is not the
"most likely scenario"
, in an interview with several media.
“The entry of Ukraine into NATO would be perceived by Russia as something confrontational.
It is not with this Russia that you can imagine
it, “he declared on Wednesday December 21 to the French daily newspapers
Le Monde
, American
Wall Street Journal
and Lebanese
An Nahar
.
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"Whether or not Ukraine enters NATO - and this is not the most likely scenario - it will have to be given security guarantees that are all the more robust since it has been attacked by Russia"
, continues -he.
Emmanuel Macron insists on the need to grant
"security guarantees"
to Ukraine but also to Russia at the end of the Ukrainian conflict, a position which has earned him strong criticism in Kiev and in Eastern Europe.
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“At the end, it will be necessary to put everyone around the table. And so that all Europeans and Westerners who give me moral lessons explain to me who they will sit around the table with
, ”he said.
"I don't want it to be the Chinese and the Turks alone who negotiate the next day
," he said, referring in particular to the mediation efforts of Turkish diplomacy.
The French president also again pleaded for the strategic autonomy of Europe, within NATO, but with less dependence vis-à-vis the United States.
“There is no European security architecture without strategic autonomy, in NATO and with NATO, but not dependent on NATO
,” he stressed.
"An alliance is not something I depend on, it's something I choose (...) We must rethink our strategic autonomy
," he insisted.
"Europe must gain in technological autonomy, capacity, including in relation to the United States"
, hammered the French president.