(ANSA) – PARIS, APRIL 14 – The French president, Emmanuel Macron, reiterated today – regarding the controversy over his refusal to use the word “genocide” to define Russian operations in Ukraine – that “verbal escalation” does not It will “help” the Ukrainians and could push Westerners to intervene.
Macron – speaking to France Bleu – said he spoke in the morning with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who yesterday said he was “very hurt” by his French counterpart’s refusal to report a “genocide” in his country. unlike US President Joe Biden.
“The word genocide makes sense” and “must be a qualification established by jurists, not politicians,” Macron said during an election visit to the port city of Le Havre in northern France. According to him, “states that talk about genocide, according to international conventions, should intervene. Is this what people want? I don’t think so”, because it would mean “becoming co-belligerents” in the conflict. “Everyone must maintain discernment – continued Macron – this does not mean helping Ukraine, but entering into verbal escalation without drawing all the consequences. I maintain the same line of action: do everything to stop this war, be at the alongside the Ukrainians, continue with the measures of solidarity and act to find peace and protect our compatriots from war “.
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Source: Ansa
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