French presidency: Macron's statement regarding Russia's granting of security guarantees "taken out of context"

Macron's statements came during his conversation with Biden.

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The Elysee Palace announced that French President Emmanuel Macron's recent statement about granting Russia security guarantees was "taken out of context", ahead of a new conference, the day after tomorrow, in Paris on aid to Ukraine.

And the French presidency affirmed that “the dialogue between Macron and his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelensky, is excellent,” adding: “There is a difference between some movements or some people who seek to cut a section of a sentence out of its context, and the reality of the work that we are doing, which is actually done without difficulty.”

And the French President had confirmed that it would be necessary to give guarantees to Russia to find a balance with it, during his conversation with his American counterpart, Joe Biden, at the beginning of December about the security structure in Europe and rebuilding it after the end of the war in Ukraine.

This security structure, which was put in place by the United States, the Soviet Union, and then Russia, has been faltering for years, and France insists that the Europeans should be at the negotiating table when negotiating new arms control agreements.

Macron said, referring to Russia's repeated demands 30 years after the fall of the Soviet Union, that "one of the main points is the fear that NATO will come to its doors and deploy weapons that could threaten Russia."

Ukrainian and Eastern European officials have expressed their annoyance and even their opposition to the content of that statement.

A conference "For Resilience and Reconstruction in Ukraine" is scheduled to be held in Paris, the day after tomorrow, with the aim of "explaining Ukraine's needs to ensure its economic resilience in wartime and reconstruction in the medium term," according to the French authorities.

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