The French President stated that efforts to develop this set of rules should start now and proposed to Europeans the launch of consultations on this subject, if they wish to discuss with Russia in the future from a position of strength.

Emmanuel Macron also said that if Europe were to send troops to Ukraine now, tensions with Russia would escalate. “Today, if we get involved and send ground troops, we take on the responsibility of escalation. We have no consensus to do this. We would be responsible for triggering a loss of control over the situation,” said the French president, responding to a question in the question and answer session.

The President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, wrote on the X network, following the meeting on Ukraine, which was also attended by the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, that the objective of the European Union is to ensure that Ukraine can negotiate peace from a position of strength and that it has a secure and prosperous future for its citizens, within the EU.

According to the leader from Kiev, in order to end the war, security guarantees and an agreement for the reconstruction of Ukraine are necessary, and for this, a more direct pressure on Russia is needed.

In an interview given to Politico, Zelensky stated, in the context of suggestions coming from the United States that Ukraine might make compromises on certain issues to end the war, that the biggest compromise already made is that “Putin and his friends are not in prison.”

The Munich Security Conference takes place from February 13th to 15th.

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Citing sources from the Egyptian presidency, The Guardian writes that the summit aims to “end the war in the Gaza Strip, strengthen efforts to achieve peace and stability in the Middle East, and usher in a new era of regional security and stability”.

The UN Secretary-General, António Guterres, the British Prime Minister, Keir Starmer, the Italian Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni, as well as the Spanish Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, have confirmed their participation. The President of France, Emmanuel Macron, will also be present.

At the moment, it is not clear whether the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will participate in the summit, while the leadership of the Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas announced that they will not take part.

The summit is organized following a ceasefire and prisoner exchange agreement between Israel and Hamas, concluded after intense negotiations held in recent days in Sharm el-Sheikh. The war broke out after the attack launched by Hamas in Israel, on October 7, 2023, as a result of which approximately 1,200 people were killed, and over 250 were taken hostage. In Israel’s subsequent attacks on the Gaza Strip, over 67,000 Palestinians, mostly civilians, lost their lives.

The negotiations, mediated by Egypt, Qatar, and Turkey, with the involvement of American envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, led to the hastening of the armistice and the subsequent increase in humanitarian aid for the population of Gaza.

For many residents of the Gaza Strip, however, there is no longer a home to return to, as the intense bombings of the past two years have turned their neighborhoods into ruins, notes The Guardian.

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