French President Macron To Trump: 'You Can Count On Us' To Deliver 'Robust Peace' For Ukraine, EU

During a public meeting with President Trump and European leaders, French President Emmanuel Macron discussed a Russia-Ukraine ceasefire.

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00:00Emmanuel.

00:02Thank you, Mr. President, for organizing this meeting

00:06and for your commitment.

00:09And everything was said, but I just have to say here,

00:13everybody around this table is in favor of peace.

00:18And we work very hard and we've worked very hard

00:21during the past few years to have a peace

00:23which is a robust and longstanding peace.

00:27This is why the idea of a trilateral meeting is very important

00:32because this is the only way to fix it.

00:34And by the way, I think as a follow-up,

00:37we would need probably a quadrilateral meeting

00:38because when we speak about security guarantees,

00:41we speak about the whole security of the European continent.

00:44And this is why we are all united here with Ukraine on this matter.

00:50In order to organize such a trilateral meeting,

00:52your idea to ask for a truth,

00:55or at least to stop the killings as we discuss is a necessity.

01:01And we all support this idea.

01:04And in order to have such a longstanding peace for Ukraine

01:07and for the whole continent,

01:08we do need security guarantees.

01:12And the first one is clearly a credible Ukrainian army

01:15for the years and decades to come.

01:18And the second one is our own commitments, all of us.

01:21And we worked very hard during the past few months

01:24among the coalition of the willings with the support of NATO

01:28to build the different pillars of security guarantees

01:31and our commitments.

01:33And you can be sure that the Europeans are very lucid

01:35about the fact that they have their fair share

01:37in these security guarantees for Ukraine,

01:40but their own security is clearly at stake in this situation.

01:44So you can count on us as we can count on you

01:47in order to deliver this robust peace

01:51for both Ukraine and Europe.

01:54Thank you very much, Emmanuel.

01:55Mr. President.