After Trump's Ukraine course change
Macron advises with other NATO countries in Paris
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After Macron's lightning summit in Paris on Monday, many EU countries that were not invited push for a follow-up date. Trump's harsh statements in the direction of the Ukrainian president cause sharp contradiction at Canada's prime minister.
After the Ukraine talks of representatives of the United States and Russia in Saudi Arabia, European allied Kievs met again at the invitation of France's President Emmanuel Macron on advice in Paris. As said from the Elysée Palace, Macron spoke to the heads of state and government of 19 countries, including Canada and several EU countries in the afternoon. Most therefore took part in video count.
Macron had scheduled the meeting at short notice. According to media reports, several countries, including Romania and the Czech Republic, had previously agreed that Macron had not invited them to meet several top European politicians in Paris on Monday.
According to Elysée Palace, the temporary president of Romania, Ilie Bolojan, and Luxembourg Prime Minister Luc Frieden personally took part in the meeting on Wednesday. The heads of state and government of Lithuania, Cyprus, Finland, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, Estonia, Greece, Ireland, Ireland, Latvia, Latvia, Norway, Portugal were switched on.
Trudeau stands against Trump
US President Donald Trump announced the beginning of talks about the future of Ukraine last Wednesday after a phone call to the Russian head of state Vladimir Putin. At a first meeting on Tuesday in Riad, Washington and Moscow negotiations to settle their differences and to quickly end the Ukraine War. Ukraine and Europeans were not invited.
The Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau again demanded that Ukraine have to be involved in the negotiations. It is a “central principle for Canada” and the “vast majority” of the allies that “nothing about Ukraine without Ukraine”.
Trudeau also rejected Trump's statements that the Ukraine “started” with the war. Russia “deliberately” violated the principle that states did not come to their neighboring countries, Trudeau said.
