{"id":2981,"date":"2022-02-20T20:54:25","date_gmt":"2022-02-20T20:54:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedandhappy.com\/?p=2981"},"modified":"2022-02-20T20:53:57","modified_gmt":"2022-02-20T20:53:57","slug":"macron-and-putin-hold-direct-talks-are-committed-to-de-escalate-situation-in-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedandhappy.com\/?p=2981","title":{"rendered":"Macron and Putin Hold Direct Talks, are Committed to De-Escalate Situation in Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While U.S. President Joe Biden keeps beating the war drum, French President Emmanuel Macron and Russian President Vladimir Putin just had a direct phone call with each other and both stressed their committment to peace and de-escalation of the Ukraine crisis.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Both leaders agreed to multilateral talks, involving also the leaders of Ukraine, key European countries and allies.  Specifically, they agreed to begin trilateral talks &#8220;within the next few hours&#8221; with the goal of getting all parties to agree to a ceasefire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The French and Russian Foreign Ministers, Le Drian and Lavrow, are going to meet in the next few days and further meetings are planned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Both parties stressed their interest in a diplomatic solution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.elysee.fr\/emmanuel-macron\/2022\/02\/20\/entretien-telephonique-avec-vladimir-poutine-president-de-la-federation-de-russie-1\">https:\/\/www.elysee.fr\/emmanuel-macron\/2022\/02\/20\/entretien-telephonique-avec-vladimir-poutine-president-de-la-federation-de-russie-1<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While U.S. President Joe Biden keeps beating the war drum, French President Emmanuel Macron and Russian President Vladimir Putin just&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","post-archive"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedandhappy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedandhappy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedandhappy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedandhappy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedandhappy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2981"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/informedandhappy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2982,"href":"https:\/\/informedandhappy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2981\/revisions\/2982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedandhappy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedandhappy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedandhappy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}