Solene Leroux
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9:13 a.m., February 24, 2022
For MEP LR François-Xavier Bellamy, guest of Sonia Mabrouk this Thursday, the President of the Republic was right to use all diplomatic means to try to avoid an open conflict in Ukraine. From now on, he considers that a coordination of the States is necessary in order to “put enough pressure on Russia to compel it to peace”.
MEP LR François-Xavier Bellamy was the guest of Sonia Mabrouk this Thursday, when the conflict in Ukraine is now an open war. “Our absolute solidarity with the Ukrainian people who are experiencing the violation of their sovereignty, of the integrity of their territory,” he said. The elected also cited “the end of peace” that Europeans “have too long believed acquired forever”. According to him, what is at stake, “is the international order as such”. “Never should nations resolve their differences by violence,” he continued at the microphone of Sonia Mabrouk.
Finding energy autonomy
In this regard, he believes that this is the role of diplomacy: “We had to hear what Russia had to say on these security concerns.” In this sense, “the President of the Republic was right to try to conduct this dialogue” with the country of Vladimir Putin, he also assured.
However, even if there may “be disagreements on the way of conceiving security in Europe”, the MEP estimated on Europe 1 that we “must not let this situation in which a nation imposes itself uses violence to obtain what it demands”. This new European conflict is a reminder that “Westerns have disarmed themselves not only militarily, but above all in their economic relations with the rest of the world”, by evoking the question of Russian gas. François-Xavier Bellamy has been defending for several months in the European Parliament an “energy policy which allows us to maintain, develop and regain our strategic autonomy in Europe”.
“Forcing Peace”
And the MEP added that currently, “many Europeans are dependent on the energy supplies that come to us from Russia”. “And we can clearly see that this situation of vulnerability makes us very largely fragile in the face of the situation that is emerging.”
“We must coordinate to act together and put enough pressure on Russia to compel it to peace,” he continued. According to MEP LR, “if we don’t act today, tomorrow it will be other powers who are watching the reaction of the West. And China will say to itself, if we are not able to act , that tomorrow she can act in the same way”.