{"id":23799,"date":"2025-04-16T04:15:08","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T04:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/23799\/"},"modified":"2025-04-16T04:15:08","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T04:15:08","slug":"rubio-witkoff-heading-to-france-for-talks-on-ukraine-iran-and-trade-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/23799\/","title":{"rendered":"Rubio, Witkoff heading to France for talks on Ukraine, Iran and trade \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An official familiar with preparations for the trip said the two sides will discuss Ukraine, Iran and trade relations <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/eu-calls-on-trump-to-engage-in-two-way-street-on-tariffs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">in the wake of Trump\u2019s tariff threats<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Macron\u2019s meeting with Witkoff comes only days after the envoy met Russian President Vladimir Putin to discuss a possible ceasefire in Ukraine after Russia-U.S. talks stalled in recent weeks. The encounter in Moscow was \u201canother step in the negotiating process towards a ceasefire\u201d despite Trump\u2019s \u201cfrustration,\u201d according to the White House press secretary.<\/p>\n<p>The French president has been leading European efforts to provide Kyiv with security guarantees, including the deployment of a so-called reassurance force in Ukraine, in the event of a truce.<\/p>\n<p>The trip marks the first time high-level American dignitaries have traveled to France since U.S. Vice-President JD Vance attended a summit on artificial intelligence in February.<\/p>\n<p>Tariffs are expected to be high on the agenda. Last week, Macron said Trump\u2019s move to suspend his most <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/emmanuel-macron-says-donald-trump-tariff-suspension-only-provides-a-fragile-pause\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">punishing tariffs for 90 days offers only a \u201cfragile\u201d pause in tensions<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Nahal Toosi contributed to this report. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An official familiar with preparations for the trip said the two sides will discuss Ukraine, Iran and trade&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23800,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7654],"tags":[1942,32,34,2000,299,36,2817,774,601,13302,43,2820,332,811,7070,479,1201,657,49,333],"class_list":{"0":"post-23799","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ukraine","8":"tag-artificial-intelligence","9":"tag-donald-trump","10":"tag-emmanuel-macron","11":"tag-eu","12":"tag-europe","13":"tag-france","14":"tag-intelligence","15":"tag-iran","16":"tag-jd-vance","17":"tag-jean-noel-barrot","18":"tag-macron","19":"tag-marco-rubio","20":"tag-russia","21":"tag-security","22":"tag-steve-witkoff","23":"tag-tariffs","24":"tag-trade","25":"tag-ukraine","26":"tag-united-states","27":"tag-vladimir-putin"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114345707291803597","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23799\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}