Foreign pool report #10 Macron's quotes and Trump's story in France

Here are the main quotes from President Macron during the Oval Office bilat with President Trump.

I also added a little anecdote that Trump shared on a previous trip to Paris.

"We want to build peace with Ukraine. As President Trump

As mentioned, there are already 1 million dead included in Ukraine since the war began,and this war of aggression. We want the peace to last because we already had a ceasefire in the past that was not respected. This was under the Minsk agreements one and two."

"What President Trump just said is very important, he will be meeting with President Zelensky very soon to sign this deal on minerals and rare earths, and its a way to have a strong American involvement. Europeans are ready to support Ukraine in various ways, supporting its military,and are ready to be present to make sure the peace lasts."

"But we do share the same objective, this is what we talked about this morning for one hour after the videoconference together."

"This is a question that was asked by your colleague in French and it's also what some of your American colleagues asked. Building peace is a necessity. The other thing is that there is today a capacity of deterrence. That's what President Trump meant when he said there won't be any more problems. I think that the US strength of its re-engagement is that there is uncertainty for President Putin. There is deterrence capacity, which will allow a truce to take place, verification of that truce, and then a peace agreement can be put in place so that we can start rebuilding Ukraine with security guarantees. Concerning these security guarantees, we think we have a role to play. I'm not preempting any discussions, but it's necessary that Ukraine can stay a sovereign country. And that has been a subject to discussion between the US and Ukraine, the ukrainian sovereignty. We have been working closely with our British partners these past weeks. We've shared this with other European countries and allies wanti

ng to join, its to say we are ready and willing to provide those security guarantees, conditions still have to be defined by this agreement. It could include troops to observe that the peace is respected. They would not be along the front lines, they would not be part of any conflict. They would be there to ensure that the peace is respected. Our assistance may include other capacity building, perhaps for the military."

"You take the proceeds because they are paralyzed in a certain way during war time, but you keep the assets, and it's part of the negotiation at the end of the war. Because, I mean, this war costs to all of us a lot of money. And this is the responsibility of Russia, because the aggressor is Russia, so at the end of the day, these frozen assets should be part of the negotiation."

"I support the idea to have Ukraine first being compensated because they are the one who have lost a lot of their fellow citizens and are being destroyed by this attack.

Second, all of those who paid for could be compensated, but not by Ukraine, by Russia, because they were the one to aggress."

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Trump shared an anecdote on France during the discussions "I just want to tell you a little story. So we were at the Eiffel Tower having dinner with your wonderful wife and with my wonderful wife, and we came out, and he started speaking French(...), and we didn't have an interpreter, and he was going on and on and on, and I was just nodding yes, yes, yes. And he really sold me out, because I got back the next day that I read the papers, I said, that's not what we said."

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Sonia Dridi

Correspondante � Washington DC

Washington DC Correspondent

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