Xavier Chatel
Diplomatic Advisor for Strategic Affairs and Disarmament to the President of France , YES Annual meeting 2025 "How to End the War?
«We know that Russia has a huge track record of not sticking to its word. The issue is to give Ukraine the space to enter into any kind of negotiation. The basis of this is by doing robust security guarantees, which means a steady flow of arms to Ukraine, a robust future force model, funded and supported by all of us, which means we need to have reassurance forces we can deploy into Ukraine to ensure there is no resumption of the conflict, and to enshrine all this in some kind of legal framework»