“As for the Leclerc tanks, it is not out of the question,” President of France Emmanuel Macron reported at a joint press conference with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in Paris on January 22, an Ukrinform correspondent reports.

But, he included, the conclusion on the transfer of tanks must be manufactured collectively on three grounds: such materials should not direct to even further escalation, it must basically be a actual successful help to the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and ought to not weaken the armies of the countries by themselves and NATO. Macron observed that it is necessary to acquire into account this kind of factors as training and logistics.

The President of France mentioned that the concern will be discussed with the most crucial allies, largely with Germany.

“We will have out the perform in the coming times and weeks,” he added.

Chancellor Scholz answered the query about the German Leopard 2 tanks in the exact vein concerning shut coordination whilst did not even make this kind of “guarantees” and did not point out the word “Leopard” in his answer.

“Our two nations around the world do a large amount to assistance Ukraine – economically, humanitarianly, but also with weapons. We will carry on, we have generally intently agreed on the troubles … and this theory will continue to be,” Scholz said.

At the same time, he pointed out that Germany frequently expands the list of weapons it presents to Ukraine and always coordinates it with its closest associates: this was the circumstance with artillery, MLRS, infantry battling vehicles, air defense systems, and so on. All this devices is extremely economical.

Scholz also described the Elysée Treaty which was aimed at stopping a new war, “and it labored for the EU associates.”

“That is why we are so outraged by the war that Russia has unleashed … We should reply to the aggression that has happened … including by supplying weapons,” Scholz claimed.

He termed Russia’s solutions of waging war “a model of the 15th, 16th, 17th, and 18th hundreds of years.”

The Chancellor observed that he and President Macron typically spoke with President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky but also with President Putin who was urged to conclude the war in Ukraine and withdraw Russian troops from its territory.

In addition to the leaders, protection ministers Boris Pistorius and Sébastien Lecornu talked over the subject of supporting Ukraine with weapons as aspect of a joint meeting of the German-French Council of Ministers in Paris.

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