Macron recommends offering Russia "security guarantees" if it decides to negotiate peace in Ukraine

MADRID, 4 Dic. (EUROPA PRESS) -

French President Emmanuel Macron has outlined a medium-term security overview of the Ukraine conflict by recommending, after promising to continue sending aid to the kyiv government, that Russia receive some form of "security guarantee" if it decides to sit down to negotiate to end the conflict.

"In the coming weeks, we will have to help Ukraine to resist, the Ukrainians to hold on, continue to help militarily and intervene very precisely to protect power plants," Macron explained in an interview broadcast on Saturday by TF1.

However, the president has also recommended continuing to prepare "the dialogue" for "the day when everyone returns to the (negotiating) table."

"There is one thing that depends on the Ukrainians, it is the question of the borders. It is something that we must prepare," declared the president, recently arrived from a visit to the United States, where he met with President Joe Biden, in which both discussed "the security architecture we want to live in tomorrow."

Macron has thus referred to Russia's fears about the presence of NATO on its borders, especially when countries such as Sweden or Finland have requested their membership as a result of the conflict.

"It is a question that is part of the factors for peace and, therefore, for which we have to be prepared: what are we prepared to do, how do we protect our allies and member states, while giving guarantees for their own security to Russia the day he returns to the table?" he questioned.