President Emmanuel Macron has revealed that he will be calling his counterpart, Vladimir Putin after a Group of 20 summit which would be held in Bali where the Russian leader is expected to face strong pressure from other world leaders.
Macron “will call him after the G20,” the senior Elysee official had revealed to reporters, lamenting Putin’s “isolation” over the invasion of Ukraine.
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The French president has maintained lines of communication with Putin despite the conflict, and will “continue to talk,” the official added.
Macron will also tell China’s Xi Jinping it is in Beijing’s “interest” to “pressure” Russia over the invasion of Ukraine.
He will meet the Chinese leader Tuesday morning on the sidelines of the summit on the Indonesian island of Bali and tell him “your interest, like mine, is to put pressure on Russia so it returns to the negotiating table and respects international law.”
In another report, French author awarded who was recently awarded a Nobel Literature Prize, Annie Ernaux on Sunday wrote an open letter supporting a mass protest against President Emmanuel Macron called by the country’s left-wing opposition.
Organisers of the demonstration on October 16 have already come out to accuse Macron of failing to tackle soaring prices for energy and other essentials and of insufficient action against climate change.
‘Emmanuel Macron is seizing this inflation to widen the wealth gaps, and boost the profits of capital, at everyone else’s expense,’ said the letter in the Journal du Dimanche newspaper.
‘And this shock is allowing this government of the rich to open a new phase: attack the pillars of our solidarity, the heart of our social protection — first with employment benefits, and now the pension system.’
Ernaux, 82, was listed first and among the most prominent of the 69 signatories that included fellow authors as well as economists, professors, and activists.