Angela Merkel says she tried a European dialogue with Vladimir Putin but says she no longer had influence

German former chancellor Angela Merkel assures that he tried to convince his European partners of the need to find their own European format to dialogue with the Russian president, Vladimir Putinin relation to Ukraine but that she realized that she no longer had influence.

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merkel reveals in an interview published this Thursday by the German weekly “Der Spiegel” that he had this initiative because the Minsk Protocol, an agreement signed in 2014 by Ukraine, the Russian Federation, Donetsk and Lugansk under the auspices of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) that sought a political solution to the conflict, had become obsolete.

”The Minsk Agreement remained empty. In the summer of 2021, after the presidents (Joe) Biden and Putin met, I wanted to establish an independent European debate format with Putin again and with Emmanuel Macron in the Council of the EU”remember merkel in the interview about the American, Russian and French presidents.

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“Some people objected and I no longer had the strength to impose myself because everyone knew that it would disappear in the fall”He says merkel regarding her then close abandonment of the chancellorship, since she was not a candidate for the position in the German elections of September 2021.

The former chancellor reveals that in conversations held with other leaders of the European Union she asked “to others in the (European) Council, why don’t you intervene, but say something! One told me: it’s too big for me. Another just shrugged: that’s what the greats have to do.”bill.

merkel assures that if she had been a candidate again in September in the German elections “I would have insisted more”.

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And then he reveals the atmosphere that surrounded his last meeting with Putin in the Kremlin, where he went as a farewell visit before leaving the Foreign Ministry: “The feeling was very clear: in terms of power, you are finished.”

“For Putin, only power counts” says Merkel, who tells that at that meeting with Putin, with whom he used to meet alone when the two were talking, the Russian president arrived accompanied by the Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.

Source: Elcomercio

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