{"id":337416,"date":"2025-08-12T03:30:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T03:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/337416\/"},"modified":"2025-08-12T03:30:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T03:30:12","slug":"france-says-alaska-summit-must-deliver-ceasefire-wanted-by-trump-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/337416\/","title":{"rendered":"France says Alaska summit must deliver ceasefire wanted by Trump, Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>LONDON<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The upcoming summit between the American and Russian presidents in the US state of Alaska must lead to a ceasefire wanted by US President Donald Trump and accepted by Ukraine, the French foreign minister said Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Jean-Noel Barrot wrote on X that EU foreign ministers reiterated support for Ukraine and aspire to a just and lasting peace.<\/p>\n<p>His remarks followed an informal videoconference of EU foreign affairs ministers that discussed developments ahead of Trump&#8217;s meeting Friday with Russian President Vladimir Putin.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The summit to be held in Alaska must lead to the ceasefire desired by President Trump and accepted by Ukraine five months ago already,&#8221; said Barrot. &#8220;It is on this basis that negotiations can finally begin.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said after the meeting that transatlantic unity, support for Ukraine and pressure on Russia are &#8220;how we will end this war and prevent future Russian aggression in Europe.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; &#8216;Ukraine must be part of any agreement leading to just, lasting peace&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul reiterated that European countries stand by the side of Ukraine &#8220;in these critical days,&#8221; closely coordinated with transatlantic partners.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We support the goal of @potus (US President Donald Trump) to end Russia&#8217;s war of aggression against Ukraine,&#8221; he wrote on X, noting that the result must be &#8220;a just &amp; lasting peace.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Dutch Foreign Minister Caspar Veldkamp also welcomed the US initiative to reach an immediate ceasefire in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ukraine must be part of any agreement leading to a just and lasting peace,&#8221; he wrote on X, adding that European and transatlantic unity is key.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As EU, we are fully committed to support efforts for a durable solution,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>                            &#13;<br \/>\n                                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/p\/subscription\/1001\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"font-size:12px; color:#444; text-decoration:none;\" rel=\"noopener\">&#13;<br \/>\n                                    Anadolu Agency website contains only a portion of the news stories offered to subscribers in the AA News Broadcasting System (HAS), and in summarized form. <b style=\"color:#1897F7\">Please contact us for subscription options.<\/b>&#13;<br \/>\n                                <\/a>&#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONDON The upcoming summit between the American and Russian presidents in the US state of Alaska must lead&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":337417,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[120572,5340,32,2000,299,36,13302,333],"class_list":{"0":"post-337416","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-alaska-meeting","9":"tag-anadolu-ajansi","10":"tag-donald-trump","11":"tag-eu","12":"tag-europe","13":"tag-france","14":"tag-jean-noel-barrot","15":"tag-vladimir-putin"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115013682666455538","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337416","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=337416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/337417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}