{"id":4353,"date":"2025-12-01T17:35:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T17:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sawahsolutions.com\/national\/zelenskyy-intensifies-push-for-truly-durable-peace-in-talks-with-macron-starmer-and-us-envoy\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T05:16:27","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T05:16:27","slug":"zelenskyy-intensifies-push-for-truly-durable-peace-in-talks-with-macron-starmer-and-us-envoy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sawahsolutions.com\/national\/zelenskyy-intensifies-push-for-truly-durable-peace-in-talks-with-macron-starmer-and-us-envoy\/","title":{"rendered":"Zelenskyy intensifies push for \u201ctruly durable\u201d peace in talks with Macron, Starmer and US envoy"},"content":{"rendered":"
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By Staff Writer<\/em><\/p>\n

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has intensified his diplomatic push for a\u00a0\u201ctruly durable\u201d\u00a0peace, holding hours of talks in Paris before joining a series of high-level calls with European leaders and the United States.<\/p>\n

Zelenskyy arrived at the \u00c9lys\u00e9e Palace on 01 December for what he described as\u00a0\u201cseveral-hour talks\u201d\u00a0with French President Emmanuel Macron.\u00a0\u201cDuring our several-hour talks, Emmanuel Macron and I assessed a great many details. The main focus was on negotiations to end the war and on security guarantees. Peace must become truly durable.\u201d<\/p>\n

He stressed that success depends on every international leader, writing:\u00a0\u201cMuch now depends on the involvement of every leader. We will also be speaking with other leaders today.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Paris discussions followed a weekend of intensive negotiations in Miami between Ukraine\u2019s team, led by Rustem Umierov, and US Special Envoy Steve Witkoff. The talks centred on a US-backed peace framework that has raised concerns in parts of Europe over the risk of giving Russia excessive concessions. The Miami negotiations came ahead of Witkoff\u2019s planned meeting with Vladimir Putin on 02 December, which the Kremlin has publicly confirmed.<\/p>\n

Shortly after meeting Macron, Zelenskyy joined a joint call with Macron, Witkoff, Umierov and UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer to review the US-Ukraine discussions. Following the briefing, he said: \u201cIt was an important briefing, and we agreed to discuss more details in person \u2013 our teams will coordinate schedules for possible further contacts.\u201d<\/p>\n

Later, Zelenskyy and Macron convened a wider multilateral call with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, Italy\u2019s Giorgia Meloni, Finland\u2019s Alexander Stubb, the Netherlands\u2019 Dick Schoof, Denmark\u2019s Mette Frederiksen, Norway\u2019s Jonas Gahr St\u00f8re, European Council President Ant\u00f3nio Costa, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, and the UK Prime Minister\u2019s National Security Adviser Jonathan Powell.<\/p>\n

The leaders discussed the Miami outcomes, upcoming meetings in Europe, and the need to reinforce long-term security guarantees for Ukraine. Zelenskyy said a strong coalition continues to stand with Kyiv as diplomatic efforts intensify.<\/p>\n

After the meetings in Paris, he reiterated the urgency of the moment:\u00a0\u201cThe war must end as soon as possible.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Staff Writer Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has intensified his diplomatic push for a\u00a0\u201ctruly durable\u201d\u00a0peace, holding hours of talks in Paris before joining a series of high-level calls with European leaders and the United States. Zelenskyy arrived at the \u00c9lys\u00e9e Palace on 01 December for what he described as\u00a0\u201cseveral-hour talks\u201d\u00a0with French President Emmanuel Macron.\u00a0\u201cDuring our<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4354,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4353","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ukraine-war"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sawahsolutions.com\/national\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sawahsolutions.com\/national\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sawahsolutions.com\/national\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sawahsolutions.com\/national\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sawahsolutions.com\/national\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4353"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sawahsolutions.com\/national\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4355,"href":"https:\/\/sawahsolutions.com\/national\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4353\/revisions\/4355"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sawahsolutions.com\/national\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sawahsolutions.com\/national\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sawahsolutions.com\/national\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sawahsolutions.com\/national\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}