(17 Apr 2025)
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Paris, France – 17 April 2025
1. SOUNDBITE (French) Jean-Noel Barrot, French Foreign Minister:
"Today in Paris, the United States, Ukraine and the Europeans gathered around the same table to follow up together on the progress of the efforts on which we would to agree upon to come to a ceasefire as quickly as possible in Ukraine enabling us to engage in discussions toward a just and sustained peace."
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2. SOUNDBITE (French) Jean-Noel Barrot, French Foreign Minister:
"These open and frank discussions will have allowed us to advance. The reflections of the Europeans, the Ukrainians and the Americans who have made a rendez-vous next week in London to pursue these discussions on this basis in order for us to to be able to hope to very soon arrive at a full and complete ceasefire without conditions of which the Ukrainians have already consented to and on which we hope Russia can consent to itself."
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3. SOUNDBITE (French) Jean-Noel Barrot, French Foreign Minister:
"We have – for a long time – feared that the Europeans were not at the table. Well today, it’s in Paris that the meeting for the first time has taken place between the Europeans, the Americans and the Ukrainians."
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STORYLINE:
French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot said the European, US and Ukrainian delegations had agreed to meet in London next week in their bid to secure a ceasefire in Ukraine after talks in Paris on Thursday.
"The reflections of the Europeans, the Ukrainians and the Americans who have made a rendezvous next week in London to pursue these discussions on this basis in order for us to be able to hope to very soon arrive at a full and complete ceasefire without conditions, of which the Ukrainians have already consented to and on which we hope Russia can consent to itself, Barrot said after the Paris meeting.
France hosted the high-level talks to discuss Ukraine and its security, the first time since US President Donald Trump’s inauguration that top American, Ukrainian and European officials are known to have met together to discuss an end to the war.
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and presidential envoy Steve Witkoff joined other top Ukrainian and European officials for hours of separate meetings at the French presidential palace before French President Emmanuel Macron brought them all together for a final round of talks at the end of the day.
Macron described the talks as an important “convergence."
"We have – for a long time – feared that the Europeans were not at the table. Well today, it’s in Paris that the meeting for the first time has taken place between the Europeans, the Americans and the Ukrainians," Barrot added.
The meetings came as concerns grow about Trump’s readiness to draw closer to Russia and after weeks of U.S. efforts to broker a ceasefire in Ukraine failed to bring an end to the fighting. There is also frustration among Europeans over the Trump administration’s other moves, from tariffs on some of its closest partners to rhetoric about NATO and Greenland.
AP video by Catherine Gaschka
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