France's Macron proposes four-way meeting on Ukraine, including Europe

PARIS: French President Emmanuel Macron, at peace talks with U.S. President Donald Trump, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and other EU leaders on Monday, proposed a future four-way meeting about Ukraine that would include Europe.

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Macron supports a trilateral meeting between the US, Russia, and Ukraine, calling it key to resolving the conflict.
He proposes expanding talks to include Europe, stressing the need for continent-wide security guarantees.
Leaders from NATO, the EU, and key European nations met in Washington to show unity and support for Ukraines post-war security.

He said the idea of a trilateral meeting - involving the United States, Russia and Ukraine - is "very important, because this is the only way to fix it", but suggested Europe should also be involved, without specifying who should speak for Europe.

"As a follow up, we would need the quadrilateral meeting, because when we speak about security guarantees, we speak about the whole security of the European continent," Macron said, according to a press pool transcript of the meeting. "This is why we are all united here with Ukraine."

Monday's meetingat the White House was also attended by the leaders of Britain, Germany, Italy, Finland, the European Union and NATO, who traveled to Washington to demonstrate solidarity with Ukraine and push for strong security guarantees for the country in any post-war settlement.