French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday accepted an invitation from Vladimir Putin to visit Russia soon, probably before the end of the year, the French presidency announced after a videoconference between the two presidents.
President of Russia “invited“The French president who”has accepted“Said the French presidency, without giving a date. The visit may “presumably»Unfold«in the coming months», «before the end of the year“, But the Covid-19 crisis will have to be taken into account,” she added. The Elysee Palace said that the trip will have no memory dimension, while Russia has just celebrated the 75th anniversary of the victory over the Nazis.
This invitation was made by Vladimir Poutine during a head-to-head in videoconference, “a deep and substantial exchange” who “allowed to take stock of the dialogue of trust and security initiatedDuring the Russian president’s visit to Fort de Brégançon, the French president’s holiday residence in the south of France, on August 19, 2019, shortly before the G7 summit in Biarritz (south-west). The French presidency then insisted on “the quality of the bilateral relationship».
Shortly after his election in 2017, Emmanuel Macron had received his Russian counterpart in splendor at the Palace of Versailles, near Paris. After two trips by the French president to Russia in 2018, one in Saint Petersburg and the other for the football World Cup final, Vladimir Poutine had come to Paris for the funeral of former president Jacques Chirac on September 30, 2019 then, on December 10, for a quadripartite summit, with Ukraine, Germany and France, intended to relaunch the peace process in Ukraine.
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