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AUTHOR:M.J. GDNUS
The heads of the German and British governments, as well as the French president, want to talk to Donald Trump to prepare for the conversation that the US president will have with Vladimir Putin tomorrow, in an attempt to end the conflict in Ukraine, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said today.
"I also spoke with (US Secretary of State) Marco Rubio about tomorrow's phone call," Merz said, according to a German government statement.
"We (the heads of state and government of France, Great Britain and Germany) have agreed to talk again with the US president in order to prepare for this conversation," said Merz, who attended the first mass of the new head of the Roman Catholic Church, Pope Leo XIV, at the Vatican today.
Several other political figures were also present in Rome, including Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, French Prime Minister Francois Bayroux, US Vice President J.D. Vance and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
“Europeans and Americans are determined to work together, in a targeted manner, to bring this terrible war to a swift end,” said Merz, whose country is the second-largest supplier of military aid to Kiev, after the United States.
“We have made some small steps forward in recent days. The parties to the conflict are talking to each other,” Merz added, although Russian-Ukrainian peace talks in Istanbul on Friday, the first since spring 2022, failed to result in a ceasefire.
