French President Emmanuel Macron announced on Monday that he held “very constructive” discussions with U.S. President Donald Trump regarding the ongoing conflicts in the Middle East and Ukraine. The talks reflect a continued dialogue between the two leaders on pressing global issues.
Macron said there was a “willingness to reopen (the Strait of) Hormuz,” a vital shipping route for the world’s oil and gas, which has been blockaded by Iran during the war in the Middle East. “Several solutions were discussed… which would make it possible, without a comprehensive deal, to find ways and means of allowing more container ships and tankers to go through,” Macron said without giving additional details. It’s important for global prices,” he said. On Russia and Ukraine , Macron said he pressed Trump on the issue of supplying defensive weapons systems to Kyiv. Macron and Trump discussed “the need to help our Ukrainian friends faster and more strongly in terms of (missile) interceptors, because that is… a defensive measure,” the French leader said. Macron said in a post on X that they also discussed “the prospect of an energy truce and a moratorium in the Black Sea. The French president said Trump was “very amenable and we were able to go into detail on these two conflicts, which are obviously important for peace in the world and for our security.”
“The other issue we talked about was the situation in the Red Sea…
