The farright candidate for the French presidential elections wants a rapprochement between NATO and Russia and reiterates that for her Crimea belongs to Moscow.
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Marine Le Pen wants rapprochement between NATO and Russia. The Rassemblement National candidate in the election for the French presidency on April 24 has no doubts. “When the war between Moscow and Kyiv is over and there is a peace treaty he said I will support the development of strategic rapprochement between NATO and Russia”. That was what the exponent of the French right said at the time still considers Crimea to be part of Russia and not to regret the ban on visiting Ukraine.
Eleven days after the vote with the current President Emmanuel Macron, Le Pen is going into the discussion about the Ukraine conflict with a straight leg, with statements intended to stimulate discussion. The leader of the Rassemblement National had been trying to be moderate in the weeks leading up to the first round of elections, making us forget her closeness to Vladimir Putin and the US 9 million euros in debt, which it is repaying to a Russian creditor. However, in condemning Putin’s war in Ukraine, she opposed European and Western sanctions. In 2017, she was received with all honors by Putin himself in the Kremlin. “The policies I espouse he said are the same policies espoused by Trump and Putin.”
The leader of the Rassemblement National then declared that if she won the election, she would not travel to Moscow to meet President Vladimir Putin “until the war is over”. Le Pen then said he wanted to take Paris out of NATO’s integrated command and intervened in the current composition of the UN Security Council.
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In the event of victory and the conquest of the Elysée on April 24, he announced that he would expand the number of permanent members. “In order to give some legitimacy back to the Security Council, I will revisit the idea of expanding the list of its permanent members,” he said when presenting his foreign policy program. Le Pen named India as potential new permanent members, but also “a representative of Africa or South America. The UN executive body currently has 15 permanent members with veto power. The other ten members are elected every two years by the UN General Assembly. In terms of foreign policy, Le Pen advocates a “concert of nations” and not an “alleged international community or world government”, which he sees as “pure utopia, if not a disguise of the hegemony exercised by it or two superpowers”.