00:00 France is giving and will give all its support to Ukraine, in all domains, political, diplomatic,
00:10 legal, economic and of course military, to help this country exercise its right to legitimate
00:16 defence.
00:18 This support will continue and will increase for as long as it takes for the Russian aggression
00:23 to fail.
00:28 It's an absolute necessity in order to defend Ukraine, but beyond that to defend our collective
00:33 security and the future of the international system founded on laws and not violence.
00:42 Covering that meeting for us is Clovis Casali.
00:45 He joins me right now from the Foreign Ministry.
00:48 Clovis, the press conference wrapped up a short while ago.
00:52 Give us a broad sense of what was said there.
00:57 Well in the room it was very much about showing unity between Catherine Colonna and Mitro
01:02 Kuleba.
01:03 Interesting to point out, no figures released or special announcements made regarding weapons
01:11 delivery for instance from France to Ukraine, but the French Foreign Minister Catherine
01:16 Colonna reaffirming that France will help Ukraine as much as it needs to on all levels,
01:23 military and humanitarian.
01:25 No country wants peace more than Ukraine.
01:29 Those were the words of the French Foreign Minister.
01:33 But Kuleba, the Ukrainian Foreign Minister also saying that peace can only be achieved
01:38 if there are two principles respected.
01:41 First, Ukraine needs to get its territory restored to its borders from 1991 and then
01:47 that Russia can no longer be in a position, can't be in the future in a position to attack
01:52 again Ukraine or any other European nation.
01:57 And then there was an interesting question from a journalist saying, what do you say
02:01 to people in France, notably former President Nicolas Sarkozy saying that it's urgent to
02:07 negotiate right away with Russia for peace and with Vladimir Putin.
02:13 Well Kuleba from Ukraine said you have to be very careful.
02:17 Take a look at what happened to Wagner Bosz-Prigozhin.
02:21 He negotiated with Putin.
02:23 He thought he got an agreement and then he got murdered.
02:27 And Kuleba now is heading to the Elysee Palace to meet President Emmanuel Macron Clovis.
02:34 Should we expect any concrete announcements after that rendezvous?
02:40 Well the press is kept away from that meeting, unscheduled until this morning it appears.
02:46 But it is taking place at the Elysee Palace just on the other side of the Seine River
02:51 from where I'm standing here at the Quai d'Orsay at the French Foreign Ministry.
02:55 The French President's entourage saying that the French President wanted to meet Kuleba
03:00 in order to get a military assessment from what's happening on the ground back there
03:05 in Ukraine to know exactly what Ukraine needs in terms of arms, in terms of support, humanitarian
03:13 if you will, and any other kind of support France can provide.
03:17 And President Emmanuel Macron expected to stress once again that France is ready to
03:23 do all it can.
03:25 It's committed for diplomatic efforts in order to reach peace, in order to negotiate, talk
03:32 to other nations in the coming international summits.
03:35 This of course in order to reach peace.
03:38 Clovis Kersali at the French Foreign Ministry.
03:40 Thanks very much.
03:41 (blows raspberry)
