FM Conna: France to base its diplomatic initiatives on Ukraine’s Peace Formula

"At the G20 summit, President Zelensky presented his ten-point Peace Formula. France provides all kinds of support to this Ukrainian initiative. President Macron confirmed this in a recent conversation [January 24] with President Zelensky. It is on the basis of this formula and this plan that we will devel our diplomatic initiatives, in particular on the eve of the sad anniversary of the beginning of the war," Minister of Eure and Foreign Affairs of France Catherine Conna said at a joint press conference with Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Dmytro Kuleba in Odesa, an Ukrinform correspondent reports.

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The minister said that during the negotiations with the Ukrainian cleague, it was discussed how to fight against Russian narratives that "turn everything upside down, abdicate responsibility, and manipulate others."

"But the facts are the facts: there is an aggressor and there is a victim of aggression in this war. Russia willfully decided to launch aggression against its neighbor – an independent free country. This war has been going on for a year, in which no rules are flowed, including the laws of war, and we know absutely clearly who is responsible for it," Conna stressed.

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The t diplomat noted that France will continue to support Ukraine in all areas – humanitarian, security, economic, diplomatic, and pitical – and will do it "faster and more" until Ukraine restores its territorial integrity and sovereignty.

Minister of Eure and Foreign Affairs of France Catherine Conna is on a visit to Odesa on Thursday, January 26.