After the events of Lugano, Warsaw and Berlin in recent months, Paris for its part gets a conference in support of Ukraine on Tuesday around its Prime Minister Denis Chmyhal. However, after the fall and the previous meetings, the situation in Ukraine has changed.
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“We have Russia, which is trying to compensate for the difficulties it is experiencing on the front, with a series of intensive bombings that are not aimed at military infrastructure, but very clearly. civil infrastructure From Ukraine– we emphasize in Elysee. Damage to networks, particularly energy networks, has created enormous difficulties for millions of Ukrainians deprived of heating, water and health services.
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International emergency
The Paris meeting should be held in two stages. The first will focus on emergency international aid to try to enable the country to keep basic infrastructure operational and help Ukrainians weather the winter. “Indeed, we will focus on this point. Observation of the President of the Republic and President Zelensky was that we needed to be able to mobilize the international community as a whole for the urgency of civil resistance in Ukraine.“We say at the Elysée, when on Sunday this topic was the subject of a telephone conversation between the two heads of state. Winter has already begun, time is running out.
The Norwegian Refugee Council, a specialist NGO, says it expects hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians to leave for Europe in the coming months. According to the Élysée, financial and in-kind support “It should arrive in Ukraine by the middle of March.”.
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Hungarian filibuster
France assures that this first part of the conference will be held c “Very high level”, where 47 countries are represented, as well as 22 organizations or international financial institutions. But few heads of state will set out, content with distant interventions, like UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres.
The President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen will be present. Aid from the European Union has certainly been huge since the start of the war, but it is currently complicated, particularly by the ties of one of its members, Hungary, to Russia. Budapest, in particular, is blocking Kiev’s 18 billion euro bailout program for 2023.
Long-term reconstruction
The second part of the conference, dedicated to long-term restructuring, will have a more bilateral twist, as some 500 French companies are invited, from the CAC 40 to digital start-ups.
Stopping the fighting, of course, does not appear, but “It was the Ukrainians who asked to talk about reconstruction“We say in Paris. “Obviously, there is a lot of politics in the reconstruction dimension.we explain in Elisha. We are not going to restore Ukraine like Ukraine before the war. This is the logic of “Return better”. (better, editor’s note) which our Ukrainian partners directly asked us.” Behind these discussions there is also “To prepare this process membership in the European Union»a process in which Ukraine has entered since June.
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Source: Le Figaro
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