“The culprit is Vladimir Poutine, the persons in charge it is NATO”. This Monday morning on RTL, on the fifth day of the Russian offensive on Ukraine, the presidential candidate Éric Zemmour considered that, if Russia was guilty of not respecting Ukrainian sovereignty, the members of NATO, including France, were responsible for not enforcing the Minsk agreements. And he reiterated his wish that Nicolas Sarkozy be sent by France to bring a word of peace and balance to Vladimir Poutine.
Sunday, the president of Reconquest! sent a letter to Emmanuel Macron, which he posted on social networks. Believing that “France can no longer wait and see” and must “implement to put an end to this aggression”, he asks the President of the Republic to appoint Nicolas Sarkozy and Hubert Védrine “emissaries of France for peace” and that those go to Moscow and Kiev to put an end to the fighting.
“I am in private contact” with them “through different channels” he assured on RTL, but “it is Emmanuel Macron who will decide”.
In the eyes of Zemmour, the former head of state Les Républicains and the former socialist Minister of Foreign Affairs have “both embodied France on the international level as an independent and balanced power”. “Both are respected by the belligerents, by the Ukrainians as well as by the Russians, by Europeans and Americans. Both have experience in diplomacy and mediation,” he explains. As for Hubert Védrine, a year and a half ago he was part of a group of experts responsible for considering the future direction of the Atlantic Alliance and was in favor of a real dialogue with Russia.
France at the forefront of negotiations
In August 2008, when he held the rotating presidency of the European Union, like Emmanuel Macron today, Nicolas Sarkozy had obtained a ceasefire between Russia and Georgia, which had been at war for nine days. . He was received Friday morning at the Élysée by Emmanuel Macron. “The path of dialogue, of diplomacy is difficult, often disappointing, but there is no alternative. We must therefore continue on this path. And if France does not do it, no one will, “said the former president after an hour of interview.
Sunday afternoon, Valérie Pécresse supported the idea that Nicolas Sarkozy goes to Moscow on behalf of France and the European Union. The presidential candidate LR, who picked up her phone to talk about it with the tutelary figure of the right, also mentions her experience of the 2008 crisis.
This Monday, Hubert Védrine reacted: “It’s stupid, he confided in the world. Macron did the best he could. The only ones who could intercede with Putin are not the French, but former Chancellor Schröder, the Secretary General of the United Nations, the Chinese or the Israeli Prime Minister. »