{"id":3967,"date":"2025-12-21T07:14:31","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T08:14:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/?p=3967"},"modified":"2025-12-26T13:48:45","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T13:48:45","slug":"kremlin-outlines-conditions-for-talks-with-macron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/21\/kremlin-outlines-conditions-for-talks-with-macron\/","title":{"rendered":"Kremlin outlines conditions for talks with Macron"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Any contact must be free of \u201clecturing\u201d and focus on \u201cunderstanding each other\u2019s positions,\u201d spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Russian President Vladimir Putin is open to dialogue with his French counterpart, Emmanuel Macron, but only if it is conducted respectfully and serves a clear purpose, spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, Macron said some countries have already established contact with Moscow, and that the Europeans and Ukrainians should find a framework to restart discussions <em>\u201cproperly.\u201d<\/em> He argued that it could become <em>\u201cuseful again\u201d<\/em> to speak with Putin, as without a structured format, the EU risks <em>\u201cdiscussing among ourselves\u201d<\/em> while negotiators <em>\u201cgo alone to talk with the Russians,\u201d<\/em> which is <em>\u201cnot optimal.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, Peskov told RIA Novosti that dialogue should not be used for one side <em>\u201cto read lectures\u201d<\/em> to the other, but instead focus on <em>\u201cunderstanding each other\u2019s positions.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cPutin is always ready to explain his positions in detail, sincerely and consistently,\u201d<\/em> the spokesman added.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n        <span><strong>Read more<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<figure>\n            <img src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" alt=\"French President Emmanuel Macron.\" class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/694533e32030277c0c5faced.jpg\"><figcaption><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/629743-eu-should-ready-diplomacy-russia-macron\/\">EU should be ready to engage with Russia \u2013 Macron<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Putin has repeatedly stressed that he is open to dialogue, but only with <em>\u201cpolite people with some elementary skills of decency.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Macron spoke after an EU summit this week failed to agree on using frozen Russian assets to aid Ukraine due to internal divisions, and instead backed a \u20ac90 billion ($105 billion) loan raised on capital markets to finance Ukraine\u2019s widening budget gap. While the move was hailed as a breakthrough, several EU states opted out of the funding plan.<\/p>\n<p>The last direct contact between Putin and Macron was a phone call in July 2025, their first conversation since 2022, which focused on the Ukraine conflict.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Any contact must be free of \u201clecturing\u201d and focus on \u201cunderstanding each other\u2019s positions,\u201d spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said Russian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3969,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3967"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3967"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3971,"href":"https:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3967\/revisions\/3971"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}