Emmanuel Macron and Vladimir Putin, presidents of France and Russia, held a video conference on Friday. The subject of the meeting was the situation in Libya, Syria and Ukraine. As the representative of the Elysée Palace said after the conversation, the position of Paris and Moscow on Libya is similar.
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French President Emmanuel Macron “is convinced that we can move forward” with Russia on many issues, including the Libyan crisis, “a representative of the Elysee Palace told the media. He added, “France and Russia have a common interest in stabilizing Libya and uniting its institutions.”
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Announcement of a visit to Russia
Russian President Vladimir Putin invited the French president to pay a visit to Russia. Macron accepted the invitation, expressing his desire to come “at the end of summer” – according to the transcript of the leaders’ talks, published by the Kremlin. The presidents held a video conference on Friday, which in addition to the situation in Libya was also about the situation in Syria and Ukraine.
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Macron and Putin began the meeting by talking about the instrumentalization of the history of World War II. Putin recalled Russia’s contribution to victory in the Great Patriotic War, as the years 1941-1945 are called in Russia, i.e. from the aggression of Nazi Germany on the USSR until the end of World War II.
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Macron paid tribute to the 27 million Soviet soldiers who died during the war, also mentioning the losses suffered by other Eastern European nations.