“We cannot comply with Ukraine’s desire to join the EU and NATO,” says Fabien Roussel
Fabien Roussel, national secretary of the PCF, on Wednesday, February 21, argued for Ukraine's neutrality status, as demanded by Moscow, instead of its accession to the European Union (EU) and NATO, and called on Europeans to build “collective security”.
“Everything must be done to prevent this military escalation,” the communist leader stressed as the war in Ukraine enters its third year at the end of the week. To achieve this, “we cannot comply with Ukraine’s request to join the EU and NATO.” This is not possible,” he said.
France and the EU “are right to help a country that is being invaded,” emphasized Fabien Roussel, while London, Berlin and Paris signed bilateral security agreements with Kiev a few days ago. But “instead of getting involved in a war that could last another two or three years, flare up and become global, I hope that we will pool our diplomacy to influence political negotiations and, more specifically, the withdrawal of Russian troops “Like the status of neutrality for Ukraine,” which Vladimir Putin has been demanding since the beginning of the offensive, he explained.
“We see how dangerous it is to place ourselves under the NATO umbrella. If Donald Trump is re-elected tomorrow, how will we ensure our own collective security? », emphasized the MP from the north. In fact, if elected, the former American president threatened to no longer guarantee the protection of NATO countries from Russia if Russia did not pay its share.
In a letter addressed to Emmanuel Macron last summer, Fabien Roussel had already advocated “negotiating a neutrality status for Ukraine within the framework of international protection under the auspices of the United Nations, in return for which Ukraine would forgo joining NATO.”