Pedro Sánchez to attend summit convened by Macron in Paris to support Ukraine

Eduardo González Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez will attend the meeting convened in Paris by French President Emmanuel Macron this Thursday to discuss military support for Ukraine to "prevent future Russian invasions," according to sources from Moncloa (Moncloa) to The Diplomat. Last Thursday, at the end of the European Council meeting in Brussels, Emmanuel Macron announced the convening of a new summit of the "coalition of the willing" in Paris. He invited Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to the summit. The summit will discuss, in his own words, "the completion of efforts to support the Ukrainian army and the construction of a sustainable and resilient military model that will prevent future Russian invasions." The French president also emphasized that "the security guarantees that European forces can offer" will be defined, adding that "protecting peace is our main objective." At the press conference following the aforementioned European Council, Pedro Sánchez declared that Spain supports the "Finnish proposal" for the European Union to be present in the negotiations for a "just and lasting" peace in Ukraine through "a negotiating team and a representative who speaks on behalf of all Europeans." The peace negotiations have received new impetus after the agreement reached between Washington and Kyiv in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, to request a provisional 30-day ceasefire, with the option to extend it by mutual agreement between both parties, and to resume US security and intelligence assistance to Ukraine. Trump later presented the agreement reached in Saudi Arabia to Russian President Vladimir Putin. According to the White House, the leaders agreed that "the path to peace will begin with a ceasefire on energy infrastructure, followed by negotiations to implement a maritime ceasefire (in the Black Sea), a comprehensive ceasefire, and, ultimately, a lasting peace." The parties will meet soon in the Middle East to finalize the details. Russia, for its part, has expressed its intention to move toward a "lasting peace," although it has conditioned any agreement on the "complete suspension of foreign military aid and military intelligence to Ukraine." In this regard, Pedro Sánchez denounced, in the press conference following the European Council, Putin's "delaying maneuvers" to "continue his neo-imperialist objectives."

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