{"id":392826,"date":"2017-05-29T13:13:16","date_gmt":"2017-05-29T13:13:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/05\/29\/frances-macron-set-for-tough-talks-with-putin-near-paris\/"},"modified":"2017-05-29T13:13:16","modified_gmt":"2017-05-29T13:13:16","slug":"frances-macron-set-for-tough-talks-with-putin-near-paris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/05\/29\/frances-macron-set-for-tough-talks-with-putin-near-paris\/","title":{"rendered":"France\u2019s Macron set for \u2018tough\u2019 talks with Putin near Paris"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">French President Emmanuel Macron will shortly hold talks with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin near Paris, amid tensions over the conflicts in Syria and Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>They will meet at the ornate Grand Trianon Palace at Versailles. Mr Macron says he expects some tough words.<\/p>\n<p>It could be an awkward meeting, the BBC\u2019s Lucy Williamson in Paris reports.<\/p>\n<p>Recently Mr Macron\u2019s election team accused Russian agents of launching cyber attacks against them.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"media-landscape has-caption full-width\"><span class=\"image-and-copyright-container\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"responsive-image__img js-image-replace\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/_96256600_macronafp27.jpg\" alt=\"President Macron in Taormina, 28 May 17\" width=\"976\" height=\"549\" data-highest-encountered-width=\"624\"\/><\/span><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"media-landscape has-caption full-width\"\/>\n<p>At the G7 summit in Sicily at the weekend Mr Macron said: \u201cIt is essential to talk to Russia because there are a number of international issues that will not be resolved without a tough dialogue with them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>France is in the coalition backing Sunni Arab and Kurdish rebels opposed to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, who has strong military help from Russia and Iran.<\/p>\n<p>France has taken a tough line against Moscow over Russia\u2019s intervention in Ukraine. Western sanctions, imposed after Russia\u2019s annexation of Crimea in 2014, have been ratcheted up since pro-Russian rebels carved out a breakaway region in eastern Ukraine.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"media-landscape has-caption full-width\"><span class=\"image-and-copyright-container\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"responsive-image__img js-image-replace\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/_95877439_038661013-1.jpg\" alt=\"Russian President Vladimir Putin shakes hands with Marine Le Pen, French National Front (FN) on 24 March 2017\" width=\"976\" height=\"559\" data-highest-encountered-width=\"624\"\/><\/span><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"media-landscape has-caption full-width\">Marine Le Pen had an audience with President Putin in Moscow in March<\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Mr Putin appeared to support Mr Macron\u2019s nationalist rival Marine Le Pen during the French presidential election campaign.<\/p>\n<p>He hosted Ms Le Pen in the Kremlin a month before the election\u2019s first round.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Le Pen\u2019s National Front (FN) has received significant loans from Russian banks or banks associated with Russian financiers. She argued that French banks would not give the FN any loans.<\/p>\n<p>Before becoming president this month Mr Macron accused Russia of pursuing \u201ca hybrid strategy combining military intimidation and an information war\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Versailles was chosen for the Macron-Putin meeting because an exhibition dedicated to Tsar Peter the Great is opening there. He visited Paris 300 years ago, along with other European countries which greatly influenced his reign.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013<\/p>\n<p>Source: BBC<\/p>\n<p><!-- Quick Adsense WordPress Plugin: http:\/\/quicksense.net\/ --><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"ctx-article-root\"\/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>French President Emmanuel Macron will shortly hold talks with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin near Paris, amid tensions over the conflicts in Syria and Ukraine. They will meet at the ornate Grand Trianon Palace at Versailles. Mr Macron says he expects some tough words. It could be an awkward meeting, the BBC\u2019s Lucy Williamson in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-392826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-business"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>France\u2019s Macron set for \u2018tough\u2019 talks with Putin near Paris - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/05\/29\/frances-macron-set-for-tough-talks-with-putin-near-paris\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"France\u2019s Macron set for \u2018tough\u2019 talks with Putin near Paris - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"French President Emmanuel Macron will shortly hold talks with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin near Paris, amid tensions over the conflicts in Syria and Ukraine. 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