New German Chancellor Plans Visit to Ukraine
Newly appointed German Chancellor Friedrich Merz plans to visit Ukraine soon. He said this during his visit to Paris.
The Gaze reports on this with reference to Tagesschau.
The trip is currently being coordinated, and Merz wants to ‘do everything possible within the European Union to ensure a lasting ceasefire after the coming weekend and so that a peace agreement with Russia can then be concluded’.
The chancellor stressed that there is one main question at the moment: whether Russia is ready to agree to a 30-day ceasefire.
Merz also linked the issue of German security guarantees for Ukraine to the fact that a long-term ceasefire in Ukraine must first be agreed upon.
According to Merz, it is important that the US remains involved in this process, ‘as well as in the further provision of security guarantees for Ukraine’, and ‘that the Americans stay in the game’.
He hopes that the United States will ‘continue to fulfil its obligations’ within NATO, as well as towards Ukraine.
Friedrich Merz made his first visit to Paris, and will then head to Warsaw.
On Friday, 9 May, Merz is expected in Brussels to meet with the President of the European Council and the head of the European Commission.
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