Foreign pool #13 President Macron's quotes press conference with President Trump

Some more President Macron's quotes from the Press Conference

About Trump's discussion with Putin

"I would never give any advice to President Trump."

"I think it"s good to have discussions with other leaders, and especially when you disagree. I stopped my discussion with President Putin after Bucha and the war crimes because I considered that... I mean, we have nothing to get from him in time. Now this is a chance, there is a big change, because there is a new administration. So this is a new context. So there is good reason for President Trump to re engage with President Putin."

"being strong and having dangerous capacities is the only way to be sure it could be respected. And I insisted on that. And this is why I believe that the US has the capacity to do so, and this is why I think we should never say I will never send any boots on the ground, because you do a blank check to violate any type of commitment. So I think it's good to have discussions. I think it's useful to have negotiation."

"My strong point was to say, let's try to get something first, which can be assessed, checked and verified, and let's be sure that we build sufficient guarantees on the short run. And this is where we are ready to be engaged. As for friends, a lot of my European colleagues are ready to be engaged. But we do, do need this American backup, because this is part of the credibility of the security guarantees, and this is our collective deterrence capacity. And I have the feeling this President has this capacity."

"The security guarantees will be negotiated in due time but this peace as it is now written and negotiated is an important step forward"

(translated from French)

"Today, when we talk about troops, we are talking about it for the day after the negotiations, for a discussion of long lasting peace. Once there is a peace solid, durable, negotiated, signed by Ukraine and Russia, a peace for which we will be collectively the guarantors. France and the UK worked together the past few weeks to say we are ready to contribute. We have a plan that has been discussed between our military entities to say: we are ready. Not to go to the front or on territories that are contested or occupied. But we are ready to mark our support to ensure that the peace signed and negotiated by both parties is preserved."

That's it from me, let me know if you have any questions!

Sonia Dridi

Correspondante � Washington DC

Washington DC Correspondent

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