French President and candidate for his re-election in the 2022 French presidential election, Emmanuel Macron holds a meeting with local residents in Poissy as part of his first campaign event, France 7 March 2022;
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PARIS (Reuters) - French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday 7 March 2022 said that he was not seeing for now any diplomatic breakthroughs in talks with Moscow that would allow the war in Ukraine to end.
Asked by listeners at a campaign event close to Paris about the war, President Macron said: "We will continue to talk to Russia, even though discussions with President Putin are difficult".
"I don't think that in the coming days and weeks, there will be a real negotiated solution", said President Macron, adding that France and the West should not interfere in bilateral talks about a potential ceasefire between Kyiv and Moscow.
He earlier at the event said he was planning to hold a conversation with Chinese President Xi Jinping jointly with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Tuesday 8 March 2022 to discuss the Ukraine crisis.
