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The French president, Emmanuel Macron, on Monday managed to resuscitate the talks about the Ukrainian crisis in a meeting with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, in the fort of Brégançon, the summer resort of the French presidents on the Côte d'Azur and diplomatic meetings high level. Macron has proposed holding a summit in "the next few weeks" between Russia, Ukraine, Germany and France to advance a solution to the Ukrainian crisis.

Macron believes that the coming to power in May of this year of the Ukrainian president, Volodimir Zelensky, may offer an opportunity to move towards a resolution of the conflict in the pro-Russian separatist provinces of eastern Ukraine. Putin has even come to talk about "prudent optimism" about this dossier, after his contacts with the new Ukrainian president.

"I will talk (with Emmanuel Macron) about my contacts with the new Ukrainian president. There are things that are worthy of discussion and that lead to prudent optimism," Putin said at the press conference prior to his meeting that both leaders have offered on the terrace of Brégançon fort, on the banks of the Meditarran.

The meeting between Macron and Putin took place five days before the start of the Group of Seven (G7) meeting in Biarritz (southwest of the country), where the leaders of Germany, Canada, United States will meet next weekend , France, Italy, Japan and the United Kingdom. Moscow does not participate in the G7. It does not belong to that select club. Russia was expelled from the G8 in March 2014 after having illegally annexed the Crimea and the European Union imposed economic sanctions.

Putin, who has arrived by helicopter to Brégançon, has been received in the fort by Emmanuel and Brigitte Macron, whom he has presented with a bouquet of flowers. A meeting in the fort is less solemn and more relaxed than a meeting in the Elysee Palace and allows greater intimacy between the leaders. In France, they compare this place on the shores of the Mediterranean with the Camp David of the presidents of the United States.

Macron and Putin, whom the French president received with great pomp in May 2017 at the Palace of Versailles, had not seen each other since June at the G20 summit in Osaka (Japan). Last year, the French president met in Brégançon's fort with then British Prime Minister Theresa May.

The meeting between Macron and Putin has consisted of a bilateral meeting and a working dinner. On the menu, some of the hottest diplomatic affairs at the moment in which Moscow has much to say: Ukraine, Libya, the Syrian war and the Iranian nuclear agreement, among others.

Macron, begins the political course with a loaded international agenda. Next Thursday he will receive the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Boris Johnson at the Elysee Palace. Macron and Johnson will talk about Brexit (the eventual exit of the United Kingdom from the European Union) and will address international issues such as the G7, Iran and Syria, among others, according to sources from the Elysium.

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