#EU backs into the diplomatic efforts btw #Russia #US #Nato to de-escalate the military conflict #Ukraine. Long dinner at Kremlin but not my kind of dinner. #Macron discussed his 3 de-escalation plan. #Mythread #MyPhoto 1/1
First proposal of Macron for de-escalation it was of course...#Russia to show a gesture of de-escalation. #Putin reassured to withdraw his troops from #Belarus after their joint military exercises, but said nothing about his troops at the border with #Ukraine. #Macron #NATO 1/2
2nd proposal of Macron is on new security architecture (interesting for EU) and guarantees Moscow wants from Nato and the US: mutual limitation of military deployments, transparency, a limitation to short/intermediate-range missile deployments. 1/3
All it is about interpretation: #Russia is ready to discuss those, but it seems on second plan to the threat of #Nato enlargement to the East. 1/4
About the enlargement of #NATO, #Macron was quite serious ... a neutral #Ukraine, like #Finland, is one of the possible compromise proposals on the table. 1/4
But #Macron was subtile and offered a nuanced reading on #NATO open door policy to states wishing to join the alliance. 1/5
3 proposal: to relaunch the #Minsk II accords. For #Macron, the solution is about the implementation of #Minskagreements 2015. Tricky for #Ukraine as they see the Minsk agreement as limiting their national sovereignty. Believe it or not, I agree with Ukraine. 1/6
What a challenge...Would #Putin get a formal agreement on this issue.. What's your view, do you think that #Macron's position will support a #EU coherent position amongst the #Europeans on this? Would #Ukraine accept a neutral state solution? End

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