Olympics 2024: French President Proposes "Olympic Truce" in Ukraine and Middle East Wars, Seeks China's Aid

French President Emmanuel Macron hopes that during this year's Paris Olympics he will be able to introduce an "Olympic truce" while the war between the aggressor country Russia and Ukraine, on the one hand, and Israel and Hamas terrorists, on the other continues, bfmtv reports.

"We want to work on an Olympic truce, and I think this is an opportunity that I will try to involve many of our partners in," he told BFMTV.

Emmanuel Macron said that the 2024 Olympic Games should be a "moment of diplomatic peace".

The French president noted that he would seek help from Chinese President Xi Jinping, who will visit Paris in a few weeks. Macron, in particular, recalled that his Chinese counterpart had "the same job" in 2022 on the occasion of the Winter Olympics.

After the full-scale invasion of Ukraine by Russian troops in February 2022, sanctions against Russian and Belarusian athletes were tightened.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) also clarified last December that Russian and Belarusian athletes would only be able to compete if they did not actively support Russia's invasion of Ukraine and competed only under a neutral flag.

In March, International Olympic Committee Vice President John Coates said that only about forty Russian athletes could compete under this neutral flag. "There will be no (Russian) athletes in team sports because they cannot compete as a Russian team," John Coates said.