Leaders including French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer met American envoys and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Paris to clinch a plan to provide Ukraine with robust security guarantees, with Washington’s support.<\/p>\n
The U.S. and Europeans will play a “vital and closely coordinated role” in the provision of security guarantees, according to the draft statement. <\/p>\n
“Welcoming the confirmation that the United States is ready to play a decisive role to participate in the future security of Ukraine, we stand ready to commit to a system of politically and legally binding guarantees,” the document says.<\/p>\n
US role<\/p>\n
According to the document, Washington would deploy a “continuous, reliable ceasefire monitoring” system in Ukraine and a special committee would be set up to address ceasefire breaches.\u00a0<\/p>\n
A multinational force that is “European-led, with U.S. participation” would be deployed in Ukraine in the event of a peace deal with Russia. The U.S. would contribute support in the form of intelligence and logistics as well as a commitment to back the force if it is attacked.<\/p>\n
On military support \u2014 “the first line of defense” for Kyiv \u2014 signatories agree to “long term defense packages,” financing and budget support and “practical and technical support to Ukraine in building defensive fortifications,” the statement says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Leaders including French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer met American…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":678232,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7654],"tags":[768,365,32,34,2000,299,1945,366,807,43,48802,37887,332,811,7070,657,49,8518,2601],"class_list":{"0":"post-678231","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ukraine","8":"tag-borders","9":"tag-denmark","10":"tag-donald-trump","11":"tag-emmanuel-macron","12":"tag-eu","13":"tag-europe","14":"tag-friedrich-merz","15":"tag-greenland","16":"tag-keir-starmer","17":"tag-macron","18":"tag-mette-frederiksen","19":"tag-nicolas-maduro","20":"tag-russia","21":"tag-security","22":"tag-steve-witkoff","23":"tag-ukraine","24":"tag-united-states","25":"tag-venezuela","26":"tag-volodymyr-zelenskyy"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115849581318124419","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678231","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=678231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678231\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/678232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=678231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=678231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=678231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}