Macron demands an urgent meeting of the UN Security Council after the independence of the Donbas

The President of France, Emmanuel Macron, on Monday called for an extremely urgent meeting of the UN Security Council and the rapid adoption of targeted European sanctions against Russia, as recently the Russian President, Vladimir Putin has confirmed that he will recognize the separatist regions of eastern Ukraine, namely those of Luhansk and Donetsk.

Precisely, that decision taken by the President of Russia is ”a clear unilateral violation of Russia’s international commitments and a violation of Ukraine’s sovereignty’, reported the Elysée in a statement issued on Monday. For his part, the President of France, Emmanuel Macron, assures that ”condemns’ with total firmness the decision taken by Vladimir Putin and urgently calls for a ”meeting of the UN Security Council’ as well as the adoption of selective European sanctions’, added the statement.

The reaction taken by Macron was caused by the meeting he had with the National Security Council and also by a three-way telephone conference with Joe Biden, President of the United States, and with Olaf Scholz, Chancellor of Germany.

That is why, during Monday, the President of France was maintaining another intense combination of telephone exchanges, the most prominent with the cause of all this endless, Vladimir Putin.

Macron in his conversation with the President of Russia, Volodymir Zelensky, with the Chancellor of Germany, Olaf Scholz, who spoke up to two times, with the President of the Council of the European Union, Charles Michel, and with the President of the European Commission, Ursula Von der Leyen, with whom he tried to seek that Europe show a coordination with the response to Russia and Putin.

Tensions between Kiev and Moscow have increased since last November, after Russia deployed tens of thousands of troops near the Ukrainian border, which triggered alarms in Ukraine and the West, which denounced preparations for an invasion.

Written by BayRadio