Russian President Vladimir Putin and French President Emmanuel Macron at a press conference following talks in the KremlinMOSCOW, February 8 .The course of negotiations between the Presidents of the Russian Federation and France, Vladimir Putin and Emmanuel Macron, suggests that serious European states are set to work with Moscow, diplomatic possibilities for resolving the situations that have arisen have not been exhausted, Andrey Klimov, chairman of the Federation Council commission for protecting the state sovereignty of the Russian Federation, told RIA Novosti on Tuesday. was a very important meeting for two reasons. Firstly, France is the country that currently holds the EU presidency. And Macron confirmed that he is also in Moscow in this capacity,» the parliamentarian said.
Decisive days are coming. What Putin explained to Macron for almost six hoursAccording to him, in this way, not only did the head of one of the European states come to Russia — a person who heads the EU presidency arrived. In addition, «France is one of the two countries of the European Union and the Western world, which is full member of the Normandy format,» Klimov noted. In his opinion, taking into account the fact that German Chancellor Olaf Scholz is expected to visit Russia, «this says a lot.» settlement of the situations that have arisen have not been exhausted.» Even from a formal point of view, the European Union takes a fairly accurate position here, and it should be noted that the EU and NATO are not the same thing, the senator said. According to him, the way these negotiations went, speaks of that “serious European states are determined to work seriously (with Moscow).” It is important that this work is not drawn out, that it takes into account three key The main issues that Russia has outlined are non-expansion of NATO, non-deployment of strike weapons near Russian borders and bringing the military infrastructure of the alliance to the borders of 1997, the politician concluded. />FT: meeting between Putin and Macron «promoted» the de-escalation of the situation in Ukraine
