PARIS — French President Emmanuel Macron said the representatives of more than 30 countries who gathered in Paris “unanimously” agreed that sanctions should not be lifted against Russia until “peace has clearly been established” in Ukraine.
Thursday’s meeting was held after U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration signaled it may be ready to ease sanctions on Moscow as an incentive to get Moscow to sign onto a ceasefire deal in the Black Sea.
European leaders have made it clear that they want to keep sanctions as leverage against Russia, which many believe is not negotiating in good faith.
“Ukraine had the courage to accept an unconditional 30-day ceasefire,” Macron said. “Since that decision and Ukrainian announcement, there has been no Russian response. There have been new conditions posed [by the Russians] for a much more limited and hypothetic ceasefire.”
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